David Pye Quotes
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to see.
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Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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“We can never select the one result we want to the exclusion of all others.”
