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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My first album was completed in three months.
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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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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.
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Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.
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Small things make me happy, and I laugh out loud on the silliest of jokes!
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One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
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I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
