David Lynch Quotes
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
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Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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'If we are focused on making money only, a large slice of life will pass us by.'
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To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
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Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
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To understand an artist is to be a genius.
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
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I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.
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I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
