David Ferry Quotes
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
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Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.'
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In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
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All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.
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I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
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I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.
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The unrecognized genius of our time.
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When freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.
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I don't think in terms of projects.
