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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President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.
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Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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I graduated from West Point in 1974. It was an all-male institution. I went back to teach at West Point in 1984 and found the place far better than it was when I had been a cadet... I attributed a good amount of that to the fact that we opened up the academy to women.
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When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better? … If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.
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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.
