David Fizdale Quotes
I really want to institute a culture that has nothing to do with shots or minutes or anything like that. It starts with a foundation of service.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
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I really want to institute a culture that has nothing to do with shots or minutes or anything like that. It starts with a foundation of service.
