David Mixner Quotes
All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
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I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it’s there. It’s mapped out for me.
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All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.
