David Sanborn Quotes
I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
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I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.
