David Souter Quotes
In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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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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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.
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Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, "I am literally the luckiest person in the world".
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But coercion never produces harmony. How harmonious are people who are being forced to act against their will? Most likely, those who are coerced will resent those who benefit from the coercion. This sets group against group; it doesn't bring them together.
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In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
