David Batstone Quotes
I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
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At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.
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I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.
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Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
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I don't think we're individually amazing musicians, but what we do collectively is pretty good.
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I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.
