David Steinberg Quotes
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.
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I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
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I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.
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I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
