David Letterman Quotes
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
Quotes to Explore
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.
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Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
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It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
