David Newman Quotes
The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I was a tomboy.
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I just want to do my job.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards victory.
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Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.
