David Means Quotes

I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.

David Means

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1961

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Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

Angela Merkel

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In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.

John Tiffany

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I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.

Stanley Tucci

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If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Sojourner Truth

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It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Sidney Blumenthal

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Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

Robert Brady

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I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

Robert Wagner

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I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Minnie Driver

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If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

Louis C. K.

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Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Joyce Carol Oates

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We're able to play different genres and be very specific in sounding like we know what we're doing.

Coy Bowles

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Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

Brandon Jenner

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