David Fincher Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
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People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
