David Weber Quotes
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
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There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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Greet your son Aristocleides from me. I pray he may not turn out like you, since you, too, were once an irreproachable young man.
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Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.
