David Lehman Quotes
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I love anything to do with history.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.
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I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically have no belief in politics. But it's more of an attitude and a discipline in the way you approach life, I think, than it is just what lever you pull in a voting booth.
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We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
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The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
