David White Quotes
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.
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My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
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I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
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I spend most of my money on beer, the rest I just waste.
