Hal David Quotes
He's one of the all-time great guitarists, and worked wonders making guitars, and here he is still around, still playing and having this great award on his birthday.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
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In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
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He's one of the all-time great guitarists, and worked wonders making guitars, and here he is still around, still playing and having this great award on his birthday.
