David Hare Quotes
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
