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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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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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I rarely give interviews. I am against doing television interviews or chatting on the Net, even to promote my films. This is my personal decision, and it is not to hurt or embarrass anybody.
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Truth should never travel faster than love.
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When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
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One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college.
