David Ramsey Quotes
The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
Quotes to Explore
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.
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"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
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The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
