David Hare Quotes
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
Quotes to Explore
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.
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We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront it boldly.
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I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
