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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It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
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Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
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As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.
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I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.
