David Newman Quotes
We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.
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The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
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If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.
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..."I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-
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We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
