Dave Gorman Quotes
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
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I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.
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I would hate to meet myself at 15.
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Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.
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In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked but America's self-confidence.
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When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
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Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
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Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing
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Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
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Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
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I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.
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Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
