David Lee Quotes
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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When I would read the 'Archie' comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.
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All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.
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Your head is flowers, your body the body of a deer, pierced
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Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
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Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
