David James Elliott Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.
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'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
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Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived - thru habit and not thru merit.
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I am not a man in decent shape.
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Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
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But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.
