David Cobley Quotes
People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
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The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
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People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
