David Ives Quotes
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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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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Members of the generation that came of age after World War II-Korean War who join in a relaxation of social and sexual tensions, and who espouse anti-regimentation, mystic-disaffiliation, and material-simplicity values, supposedly as a result of cold-war disillusionment. Coined by Jack Kerouac.
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Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
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I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
