David Letterman Quotes
Nothing-believe me-nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.
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Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
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Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.
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It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
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I don't believe any amount of cost savings can justify leaving an entire quadrant of the nation defenseless, ... This decision ... could result in incalculable harm to our nation's security.
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Nothing-believe me-nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.
