Elmer Davis Quotes
We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.
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Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
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I drink a lot of coffee.
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We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.
