David Pleat Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
