David Clement-Davies Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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In defense of the right to...marry whom we please - we might quote some of the basic principles of our government and suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.
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Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.
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He sido para mí, discípulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen discípulo, pero un mal maestro.
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Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.
