David Steinberg Quotes
When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I've never been a partier.
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To be is to do.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
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When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.
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One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.
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Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
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When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
