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've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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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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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
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I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I spend most of my money on beer, the rest I just waste.
