David Walker Quotes
Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.
Quotes to Explore
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
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The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
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Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end...
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So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.
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If you're a wrestling fan, and you watch it on TV, that's great, but there's nothing quite like being there live.
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Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.
