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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If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.
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A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.
