David Ignatius Quotes
Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The Misfits skull was my second tattoo, and the Danzig was my third.
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I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
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The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
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Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.
