Dan Gutman Quotes
Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
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I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.
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I am absolutely blessed and I'm very grateful for where I am today.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.
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Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
