D. B. Sweeney Quotes
You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.
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I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
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If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
