David Means Quotes
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
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I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.
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We are starting from the scratch . In fact the wireless (phenomenon) will have bigger impact in India and China than US as North America is already wired.
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Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.
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It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
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When I became the NASA administrator - or before I became the NASA administrator - Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.
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Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.
