David Malouf Quotes
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.
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These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
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I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.
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All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
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Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.
