David Slade Quotes
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was a tomboy.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Africa is the future.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
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Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
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The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
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...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.
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Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.
