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 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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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri's slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, in 1965.
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The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.
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When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.
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Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.
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I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.
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I don't have a boss or PR person, so I'm accountable to no one.
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I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.
