David Yates Quotes
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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I have a pig valve.
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
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Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.
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It did not go without notice that Ayn Rand stood beside me as I took the oath of office in the presence of President Ford in the Oval Office. Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I'm grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her.
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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.
