David Duffield Quotes
I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.
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We believe the lower top-line growth in Q4' 00 versus expectations and uncertainty over Amazon's top-line growth going forward will overshadow the operational achievements that we felt were necessary to achieve operating profitability by Q4 ' 01 and subsequently could have driven stock price appreciation.
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
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I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.
