David Letterman Quotes
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.
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I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.
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Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.
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Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.
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Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
