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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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
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It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.
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I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.
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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
