David M. Kelley Quotes
I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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No, they said they do not believe in evolution, then they said the biggest threat to America: religious radicals living in the Dark Ages.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision engineering. We manufacture all sorts, from beds to biscuits and from carpets to lathes. We also have some of the best fish and chips in the country and some of the best curries in the world.
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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
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I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
