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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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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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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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
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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.
