David Brion Davis Quotes
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
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The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
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The judges' obsession with smut is astounding.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.
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One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
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I was always inquisitive as a child, ... I always knocked on doors to find out what could be possible.
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I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.
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We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
