David Low Quotes
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
