David Deida Quotes
We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
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It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.
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If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.
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Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
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I think my favorite album was probably Realization.
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We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.
