David Novak Quotes
God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.
Quotes to Explore
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I just don't like to dwell on stuff.
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.
