David Talbot Quotes
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
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I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
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Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.
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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
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The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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It's kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.
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What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
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When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.
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By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
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Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
