David Lowery Quotes
I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
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It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
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I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them.
