David Massengill Quotes
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.
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The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
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Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
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Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'
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You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.
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I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.
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I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
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War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
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I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.
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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.
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The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.
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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
