David Whyte Quotes
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.
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Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.
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Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
