David Sheff Quotes
An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.
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The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.
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The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.
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I've been wearing Red Roses since I was 22. Jo Malone London is woven into the fabric of my life, and I couldn't be happier to be working with a brand I love so much.
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China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.
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It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
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My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.
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I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.
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I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.
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An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
