David Copperfield Quotes
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
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I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
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I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
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People want the United States Congress focused on creating jobs in this country.
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I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.
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What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I wasn't born that way - I developed it, I worked at it. And also that the grassroots can organize and take on all the powers that be and defeat them. That is the lesson.
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
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Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.
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I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.
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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
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It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
