David Ayer Quotes

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

David Ayer

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When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.

Andrew Yang

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Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.

Max Keiser

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Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

John Updike

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Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.

Srikumar Rao

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As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

Robert Barany

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In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

Lou Doillon

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I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Joss Whedon

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I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by the house and seeing the window would say, 'Oh, that must be original, because that's where the milkman passed the cheese through to the pantry.'

Chris Van Allsburg

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To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

William Steig

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

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It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard.

Rick Riordan

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You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

Richard Simmons

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