David Selby Quotes
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.
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We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
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The people know the salt of the sea and the strength of the winds lashing the corners of the earth. The people take the earth as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope. Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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You can’t be all Mexican. It’s like being all mongrel.
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When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
