David Spade Quotes
I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
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People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope Nor does any man see what supports him, Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo, Nor does God break his promise.
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For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed … Now come the facts to summon us to reflect. They tell us in terribly harsh language that a civilization which develops only on its material side, and not in the sphere of the spirit … heads for disaster.
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With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.
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All children have creative power.
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Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
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I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.
