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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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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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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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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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 simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
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It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
