David Livingstone Quotes
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Isolationism is over.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
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Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.
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To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. … Passing experimental tests is only one of many things a theory has to do to achieve the real purpose of science, which is to explain the world.
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I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
