David Blatt Quotes
I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.
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A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.
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The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.
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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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'Truth' is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
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I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.
