David Ives Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
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I never think of who's in the competition. I never let myself get in that frame of mind, worrying about who I'm against.
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I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.
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I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
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I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.
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The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.
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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
