David Quotes
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
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I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
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I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
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The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.
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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.
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Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.
