David Talbot Quotes
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
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Texture is very important. Just the feel of everything. It's not always about recording everything in pristine quality and having everything mixed where it's absolutely perfect. It's more about a vibe.
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights of those who have been expelled already, which would include the various rights of refugees who came to Israel in the aftermath of WWII, but also those from other countries, and what rights the Palestinians have who have been dispossessed of their lands and homes.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.
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I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.
