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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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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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.
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All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
