David Nail Quotes
There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.
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I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
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Above any Greek or Roman name.
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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
