David Warner Quotes
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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But I think we need the international market.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
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My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.
