David Edward Quotes
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
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I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger
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The laugh-count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.
