David Whyte Quotes
Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.
Quotes to Explore
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.
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Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.
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Winning is a habit.
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I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.
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If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
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Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.
