Doug Davidson Quotes
One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
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One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
