David Lynch Quotes
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
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I will never wear something I'm not comfortable in, and if I do, you'll see it in my face, and it'll be a complete faux pas.
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If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
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A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.
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I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.
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Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
