David Copperfield Quotes
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
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We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.
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Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.
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In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
