David Hope Quotes
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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What matters most is the win.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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The European Union needs to reinvent its security system. It needs to break the stovepipes that prevent sharing information, enforcing borders and protecting citizens.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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I am happy and content with and within myself.
