David Allen Quotes
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
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Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demanding. You have to be mobile. You have to move to different places for your post-doc training. And if you aren't successful, it isn't a very pleasant job, either.
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I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
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A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.
