David Farr Quotes
Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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I never met anyone before who made me feel the way music makes me feel.
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Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.
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It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
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I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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It's just fun coming to the park now. The fans are pretty pumped up, too.
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And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
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Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.
