David Quotes
Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.
Quotes to Explore
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.
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I like routine.
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I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about families. Things that happen in a house within a family, because you're a child or because you want to keep the family together, you suffer things you might not have had to suffer if you weren't in that situation.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.
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One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.
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Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.
