David Mixner Quotes
At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
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Nobody owns me or my music.
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One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.
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The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.
