David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica - HYPNOS.
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Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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I try not to intellectualise what I do.
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I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.
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I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.
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Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
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I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
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Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
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I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.
