Davy Crockett Quotes
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?
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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist in whatever you do, and rip them off with respect. I think there's a big difference between ripping off with respect and ripping off in disrespect.
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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
