David Furnish Quotes
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I am a just man.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.
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Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.
