David Pratt Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I always played to win.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
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I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.
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Energy weapons are being used against neighbors. The move toward a policy of imperialism ... has a clear and high price that will eventually be paid by the citizens of a nation that embarks on the imperialist path.
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
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Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.
