David McCandless Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.
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... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.
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Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
