David Newman Quotes

I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.

David Newman

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The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.

Meat Loaf

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Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.

John Lithgow

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Cyber-enabled theft of trade secrets by state actors in China has emerged as a major threat to our economic and, thus, national security.

Max Baucus

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I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

Matthew Goode

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I guess it's sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they're in this country, would take a shot at our military.

Jeff Fisher

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Once an economy reaches a certain level of acceleration... the Fed is no longer with you... The Fed, instead of trying to get the economy moving, reverts to acting like the central bankers they are and starts worrying about inflation and things getting too hot.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.

Stephane Rolland

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At the end of my career, you never know what might happen. I think that a move to MLS... maybe.

Romelu Lukaku

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FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Christopher Plummer

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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

William Glasser

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The Bush administration's approach to the war on terror collided badly with another of its doctrines, spreading democracy in the Middle East as a panacea to reduce radicalism.

Peter Bergen

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