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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My parents have been together since they were 16 years old.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.
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Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.
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Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
