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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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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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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I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
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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.
