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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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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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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White women in Washington who have been raped and mugged on the streets in broad daylight have experienced the most revolting sort of violation of their civil rights. The hundreds of others who had their purses snatched last year by Negro hoodlums may understandably insist that their right to walk the street unmolested was violated.
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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?
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On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.
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I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'
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When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
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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.
