David Batstone Quotes
The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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Fandom is amazing.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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Don't take this the wrong way but I care more and I'm a better online friend than you. I also spend way to much time online.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.
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The journey is where we find perspective.
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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
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If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.
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Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.
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Only in marriage do love and time, eternal enemies, join forces.
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The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.
