David Wells Quotes
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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A triathlon is on my bucket list. I started training a long time ago, and my life took a different turn: Things happen; work happens. I will definitely accomplish that at some point!
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.
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My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.
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I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.
