David Letterman Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.
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I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.
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To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.
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It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
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I was so flat-chested in high school that I thought I'd better be funny if guys were going to like me.
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How long have you been a black man?
