Elmer Davis Quotes
This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
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Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
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This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.
