David Auburn Quotes
If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
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This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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You can get beat any day.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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It's insensitive, inappropriate language, and it's conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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This Game is not over, it is just beginning.
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If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.
