David Bezmozgis Quotes
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
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I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.
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If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for.
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Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
