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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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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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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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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Love dies only when growth stops.
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He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.
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I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.
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Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
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On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.
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Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.
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I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.
