David Mitchell Quotes
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
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My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
