Damian Kulash Quotes
My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
Quotes to Explore
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
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I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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It's been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with 'How I Met Your Mother' and now being a series regular on 'Homeland.'
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
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My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
