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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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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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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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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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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There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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I wouldn't want to be President now!
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything.
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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.
