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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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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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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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.
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'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
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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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I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
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I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
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Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.
