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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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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I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction. I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled.
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I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.
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Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.
