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 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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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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School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.
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There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
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We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress: If otherwise, the All remains Asunder-riven manyness.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
