David Lange Quotes
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. 'How old is this ruin?' someone asked a guide. 'Forty-two years,' said Lange.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
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Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.
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I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.
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Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.
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If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.
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We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.
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Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
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On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. 'How old is this ruin?' someone asked a guide. 'Forty-two years,' said Lange.
