David Henry Quotes
I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
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I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.
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She had known then that there were things one was more afraid of being without with ease than possessing with pain.
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I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now.
