David Lange Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Everything I do now is a first.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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lines 510–524, as translated by R. Potter (1860)
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
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When asked, 'Does God help you?': 'He's not really in caucus lately.'
