David Lavender Quotes
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.
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'Natural selection and the emergence of mind' dialectica Vol. 32 (1978), p. 339-355; republished in Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge (1987) edited by Gerard Radnitzky and W. W. Bartley, III
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 321
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My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
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I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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I want to say that Russia is developing along a democratic path, this is without question so. No one should have any doubts about that. The fact that, amidst political rivalry and some other domestic developments, we see things happen here that are typical of other countries, I do not see anything unusual in it. We have rallies, opposition rallies. And people here have the right to express their point of view. However, if people, while expressing their views, break the current legislation, the effective law in place, then of course, the law enforcement agencies try to restore order.
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The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park.
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How can we help President Obama?
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
