David Farr Quotes
We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.
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I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
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If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist.
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We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.
