David Means Quotes
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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Bullying is a national epidemic.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.
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New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.
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All my films are all my children.
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I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.
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I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.
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The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.
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Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.
