Donald Davis Quotes
As a concerned parent, the worst thoughts raced threw my head. We made one last trip to the bus stop before we knew we had to call the police.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
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Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
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I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
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As a concerned parent, the worst thoughts raced threw my head. We made one last trip to the bus stop before we knew we had to call the police.
