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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There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool.
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Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
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I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.
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The idea that life on earth is so infinitely precious that the death which robs us of it must be the ultimate tragedy is precisely the idolatry that God is often trying to combat.
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I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
