David Hare Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
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Be consistent.
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Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
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Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.
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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
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I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
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The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.
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I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.
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Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.
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In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
