David Guterson Quotes
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.
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My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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Lawmakers imagine they can be political heroes by voting for budgets that slash scientific research by 20 percent, but they inhibit our ability to respond to health crises.
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If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.
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Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.
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When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.
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I'm not an urban person.
