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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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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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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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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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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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.
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Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.
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We make ourselves up as we go.
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
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Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.
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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.
