David Selby Quotes
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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Islam neither requires one to be practising, nor to dress in one way or another. So imposing the veil on a woman is contrary to the principles of Islam. … Unfortunately, after all the suspicion weighing on Islam, many people have begun to consider the veil as a political problem, but this is not the case … Wearing the veil is a free personal choice.
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At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
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J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.
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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
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I never found it frustrating not speaking.
