Donald Hall Quotes
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A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
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People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.
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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
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Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.
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You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.
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I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.
