Davy Rothbart Quotes
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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I'll say anything to live.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.
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A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
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The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
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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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I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.
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It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.
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If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!
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If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
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I can't tell you how good it is to go from 'Homeland' to be lucky enough to find 'The Blacklist' at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.
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I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.
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I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.