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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A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
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In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
