David Millar Quotes
The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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'Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?''No trouble at all,' said Calvin, annoyed. 'Why do you think I want to cause trouble?''Because you are awake.'
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If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.
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I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
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The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.
