David Milch Quotes
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Being president looks like the worst job in the world.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.
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It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
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One of Museveni's defining early pronouncements was his diagnosis of Africa's problem. Africa's problem, he would say, was leaders who did not want to leave power.
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The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
