David Copperfield Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
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I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
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The first principle of cosmology must be 'There is nothing outside the universe'. This is not to exclude religion or mysticism... But if it is knowledge that we desire... we need to seek answers to questions about the things we can see... only things that exist in the universe.
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We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
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De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
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I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
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I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.
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Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
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I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.
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I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
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I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
