David L. Wolper Quotes
I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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Sometimes I have a sense of what I'm seeing being a small fraction of what's there. Not always there, but probably more often than I realize. Something will come up, and I'll realize I'm thinking about the world a little differently than my friends.
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Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?
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I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.
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I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.
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I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
