David Letterman Quotes
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
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People have paid for content. They always have.
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Toute idée fausse finit dans le sang, mais il s'agit toujours du sang des autres. C'est ce qui explique que certains de nos philosophes se sentent à l'aise pour dire n'importe quoi.
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People always want to compare their hands to mine. Pretty much everywhere I go.
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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
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Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.
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I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
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The once-marginal myth that the South Korean republic came into existence in Shanghai in 1919 as a nationalist state has become orthodox with remarkable speed.
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These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
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My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.
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That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.
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Now all of us can talk to the NSA-just by dialing any number.
