David Lowery Quotes
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
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Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.
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One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college.
