David Strathairn Quotes
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
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I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Talking to Petrus is like punching a bag of sand. 'Are you giving him up?' 'Yes, I am giving him up.'
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I believe cultural survival is extremely important. I also believe it's important to realize the contributions that we make for each other.
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Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
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Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
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My first love was basketball.
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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
