David Lynch Quotes
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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His smile is sweetened by his gravity.
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Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
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My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.
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I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
