David R. Ellis Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.
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I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.
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It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
