David L. Katz Quotes
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.
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I learned from my mom and dad, who didn't have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave 110 percent all the time, a lot of beautiful things will happen. I may not always be right, but no one can ever accuse me of not having a genuine love and passion for whatever I do.
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I'm not opposed to doing a fashion line, but I want to make sure it's the right thing and make sure its something people actually want instead of putting out a bunch of stuff that's already been done.
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I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
