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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.
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Find your passion and run with it. Anything is possible.
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Through all of the choke talk and everything else that was said, this team really stuck together when the chips were down and we weren't playing as well together as we knew we could. Everybody stuck together and nobody paid attention to that and we were all a unit, and it paid off in the end.
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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.
