David Lynch Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.
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The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.
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Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
