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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I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.
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Where the pools are bright and deepWhere the gray trout lies asleep,Up the river and o'er the leaThat's the way for Billy and me.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.
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I think trying to be flashy and doing things that are out of your realm of comfort is the problem with the Divas.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
