David J. Schwartz Quotes
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
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With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
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Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.
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When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'
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We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.
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I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.
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I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying ‘cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job, but his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom.
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People do more for you when you make them feel important.
