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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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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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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My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, the free peoples of the world look to America as the last best hope for peace and for liberty for all humankind, for we are the greatest country on this planet.
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I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.
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Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
