David Kaufman Quotes
Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
Quotes to Explore
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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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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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
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I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her!
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.
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When you look at organised religion of whatever sort - whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism - wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.
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For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
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I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
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Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
