David Hartman Quotes
Certainly, we didn't have the crowds we would have had if we'd had weather like last year. This year we had two crummy days.
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
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Certainly, we didn't have the crowds we would have had if we'd had weather like last year. This year we had two crummy days.
