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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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.
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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
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Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN's attention.
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Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
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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.
