David H. Koch Quotes
I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I need to work to feel well.
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I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
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I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
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Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.
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That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
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Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.
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I feel naked without my rings, and don't like walking out of the house without them, even if they do tear half of my sweaters and stab my friends in the eye.
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I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.
