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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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.
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After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.
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I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive.
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You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
