David Samuels Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
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My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.
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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
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Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.
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I have like fifteen televisions in my house.
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They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.
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Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
