David Muir Quotes
When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.
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When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.
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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
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I started with nothing. Less than nothing.
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.
