David Souter Quotes
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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I am healthy and happy.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
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Losing has nothing to do with geography.
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For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.
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History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.
