David James Duncan Quotes
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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My parents were hippies.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Revolutions never go backward.
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Greed puts out the sun.
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Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.
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Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.
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I saw Len Hutton in his prime,Another time, another time.
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How is it that one way of seeing the world becomes so widely shared that institutions, technologies, production systems, buildings, cities, become shaped around that way of seeing?
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Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.
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The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.
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I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.
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When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
