Dave Wakeling Quotes
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.

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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.
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My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
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We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.
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I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.
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I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.
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The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political careers, I saw people who'd start off in local government, gain experience, move to state government, and then on to federal office. I'd always believed that kind of experience was important.
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Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
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When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.