Davis Schneiderman Quotes
The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
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I love the sport and being competitive.
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I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.
