David Lipsky Quotes
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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A hard man is good to find.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
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It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
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Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.
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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
