David Swanson Quotes

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

David Swanson

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• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

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• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

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• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

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• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

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• I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

  

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• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

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• After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

  

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• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  

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• Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

  

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• A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

  

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• I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.

  

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• I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

  

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• But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

  

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• We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.

  

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• Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.

  

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• There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

  

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• Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

  

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• I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

  

  David Swanson
  • Good
  • Everything
  • Slavery