David Lange Quotes
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
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He's gone around the country stirring up apathy.
