David Mitchell Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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I love a web series. But to me, it does the girl in Detroit a disservice who just watches television. It does a disservice to the girl on the south side of Chicago who doesn't go online.
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I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
