David Del Tredici Quotes
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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.
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'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)
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'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?
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Yemen is an essential partner of the United States of America and the international community in combating terror.
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It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.
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Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
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I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why.
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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.
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I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
