David Blatt Quotes
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
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I want to feel like I can dance or party all night and not be worried about people stepping on my dress.
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The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.
