David Satcher Quotes
Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
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There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
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Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.
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Shout out to my haters sorry you couldn't phase me.
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Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
