David Lange Quotes
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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John Parsons: Don’t you think such a theory, such a radical theory, is anti-social?
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To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
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You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
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Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
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I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.
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I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.
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Football is more important to me than money right now.
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I wouldn't call the Prime Minister gutless. That's all that's left of him.
