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David Means Quotes

I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Positive Art Think You Create Write

I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.

School Economics Go London Write

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

Business People Know Chicago Say Up

I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story.

Matthew Heineman

Reading Story Find Angle Almost

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

People World Hands Complicated Head

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Friend Face Think Recognition Kind

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.

War Cold America Cold War Pigs Been

Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more harmed than baby boomers or recent retirees, who, unlike younger workers, didn't have the time for the market to rebound or were no longer contributing and therefore unable to invest when stocks were cheap.

Great Time Balance Value Baby Lost

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

Time Money Giving Doing Dollar Out

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Great Finance School Place Student

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Chauncey Wright

Science Experience Research Direction

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Change Sun Moon Looks Person Up

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

Art Men Training Young Necessity

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