David Plouffe Quotes
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
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'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
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I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
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I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.
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Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.
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You ask people, 'should we go back to square one?' People don't want to do that.
