David Tang Quotes
My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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I am happy in Paris.
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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.
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We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
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I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
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True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
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My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.
