David Means Quotes
We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
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There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.
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When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.
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We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
