David Garrow Quotes
Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.
