David Sax Quotes
Think of the sushi trend that started in the '80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I like to discover new things.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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We are all terminal.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
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The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
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Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'
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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
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I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire life.
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Metaphor is embodied in language.
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Think of the sushi trend that started in the '80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life.
