David Letterman Quotes
President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I would love to do a really stupid character on 'The Office'. I'm so an 'Office' fan.
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President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?