David Lodge Quotes
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.
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There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
