David House Quotes
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
Quotes to Explore
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.
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Acts of one-sided diplomacy on the part of the Bush administration.
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I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.
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It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
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Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.
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Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu
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I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."
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Nights are like the bottom of somewhere, a kind of seabed. As for the days, they have a cunning of their own.
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One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.
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If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.
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Success is only measured in terms of JOY
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People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
