David McCullough Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
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I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
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L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
