David Letterman Quotes
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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The leaders of the free world keep lowering their standards and authoritarians keep taking more territory. Eventually people wake up and ask why Putin murders in the UK or hacks in the US. Why wouldn’t he? You didn’t stop him before.
Garry Kasparov -
Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.
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Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
