David Labrava Quotes
I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
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We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on paper, you might even avoid writing down a name, let alone if they have blonde hair or this or that, to stop.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.
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I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.
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I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
