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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The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.'
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It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.
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Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.
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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
