David Millar Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.
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It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
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Der Philosoph legt sich – also selbst eine abstrakte Gestalt des entfremdeten Menschen – als den Maßstab der entfremdeten Welt an.
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I fear my ignorance.
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Every country has it trade offs.
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
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I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.
