David Sheff Quotes
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.
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When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.
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I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
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I love food, and I love carbs: Pasta, rice - that's my thing.
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I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting? Is she being coy? Does she know what she's getting into?' I didn't understand this woman.
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I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
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I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.
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How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.
