David Guterson Quotes
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.
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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
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I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.
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A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
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There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.
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Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.
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I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
