David Henrie Quotes
When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.
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I never thought of runningMy feet just led the way
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I'm a very boring person.
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I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.
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My mom always told me: Never make fun of anybody, because you never know what that person is going through. Ever since I was a kid, I never did. I never did.
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When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.
