Dave Bristol Quotes
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
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I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.
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My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
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If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
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What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by the bears.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
