David Letterman Quotes
Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.
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I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.
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At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.
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The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.
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I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
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Let me say that no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
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Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.
