D. B. Sweeney Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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I like my world to be calm.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.
