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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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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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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I’d say I was doing a great job submitting to God by submitting to my desires. Who do you think gave me desire in the first place?
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I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.
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If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
