Damian Woetzel Quotes
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.
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Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
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I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.
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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
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It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.
