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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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 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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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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If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
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Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
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I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.
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In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
