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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Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
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We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
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I've got dyslexia. When I was in school, it wasn't really recognized as much as it is today; I'm really glad that people are a lot more aware of it now.
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I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.
