David Mallet Quotes
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.
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I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.
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I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.
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Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
