Daryl Davis Quotes
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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I'm someone that speaks with their pads.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?
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The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.
