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For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
David Friedman
Live
Seconds
Gigantic
High
London
Sing
Singers
Said
Times
Hold
Them
Choir
Disney
Who
Need
Needed
I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
David Friedman
Spiritual
Song
Somebody
Saved
Mine
About
Talking
Advisor
Said
Got
Were
Listened
Themselves
Who
Letter
Lives
It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, 'I think it would be a good idea.' That's how I feel about intelligent life on Earth, especially when I think about the question of what truly intelligent life might look like elsewhere in the universe.
David Grinspoon
Life
Good
Think
Universe
Elsewhere
Earth
Would
Would-Be
About
Civilization
Idea
Feel
Like
Look
Said
How
Truly
Question
Western
Western Civilization
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Might
Asked
Gandhi
Good Idea
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
David Guterson
Way
About
Only
Write
Said
Leave
Place
Hemingway
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.
David Harsanyi
Great
Change
Trust
Discipline
Care
Take
Most
Principled
Said
Climate
Climate Change
Scientists
Precise
Being
Place
Little
Being Honest
Choice
Certain
Certain Level
Even
Level
Need
Honest
Speculative
It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'
David Haye
Best
You
Mother
Father
Long
First
Mother And Father
Whatever
About
Winning
Said
Always
Were
Prizes
Being
Want
Place
Second
Second Place
When I first went to Fitzroy Lodge, I said I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world and retire when I was 30. This is when I was 10.
David Haye
Champion
World
First
Lodge
Retire
Said
Going
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.
David Henry Hwang
Man
Signs
Visited
Deformed
Kind
Pretty
Perfect
Except
Shanghai
Badly
New
Said
Cultural
Handicapped
Center
Translated
Much
Really
Toilet
Thing
But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.
David Herbert Donald
Think
Increase
Characteristics
Having
Stems
Said
Still
Lincoln
Lot
Account
Personal
Which
Popularity
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
David Hockney
Change
People
Confused
Perspective
First
Big
Attack
Had
Like
Look
Known
Cubism
Said
Big Change
Been
Years
Used
Things
I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.
David Lagercrantz
Book
Interpretation
Universe
Characters
Had
Said
His
Going
Iconic
Millennium
Start
President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
David Letterman
War
Become
Hell
Thinking
President
President Bush
Approval
UN
He
Voters
Well
Does
Said
Wage
American
Either
Bush
Need
Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?
David Letterman
Health
Good
Day
Good Health
Me
Man
Doctor
Sign
Running
Fine
He
Hours
Said
Always
Got
Yeah
Cheney
His
Dick Cheney
Again
When Chelsea came to me and said they wanted me to come back, I was happy because I had a special moment here - one of the best in my career. I won the Champions League, the Europa League.
David Luiz
Best
Me
Happy
Back
Had
League
Come
Because
Chelsea
Said
Came
Won
Wanted
Special
Moment
Champions
Champions League
Here
Career
I changed my position when I was 16 or 17. I started in midfield or further forward as a number 10, and then in one tournament, we lost two defenders to injury in the same game, and we didn't have any on the bench. So I played at the back, and the manager of the first team saw me, and he said, 'I want this guy in the first team,' and that was that!
David Luiz
Me
Game
First
Lost
Bench
Changed
Back
Saw
Further
Guy
He
Tournament
Said
Same
Manager
Any
Want
Midfield
Then
Team
Forward
Injury
Played
Started
Number
Two
Defenders
Position
I've always said my shoulders are broad, and I can take on that extra responsibility. I love it. I want it. I prefer to take it on myself to help the other guys, who can then go out and play with their heads clear and calm.
David Luiz
Love
Myself
Responsibility
Calm
Extra
Other
Broad
Out
Guys
Take
Clear
Heads
Said
Always
Go
Want
Prefer
Then
Shoulders
Help
Who
Play
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
David Lynch
Me
Words
Both
Abstract
Abstraction
Well
Said
Concrete
Hold
Story
Really
Things
I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
David Mamet
Great
Conservative
Better
Old
Down
Meet
Wow
About
Guy
Civility
Shame
Investigate
He
Perhaps
Until
Knowingly
Him
Talking
Understand
Said
Years
Sat
Thing
I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.
David Maraniss
Truth
Everything
Only
Write
Put
Said
Context
Cover
Up
Close
Person
Get
Going
Anything
With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.
David Milch
Character
Degradation
About
Case
Write
Had
He
Joseph
Idea
Said
Wanted
Show
Novel
I was getting to the point where I said to my wife, 'I don't think I'll ever be in New York in a play again.'
David Morse
Wife
Think
Point
New
Said
York
Getting
New York
Where
Again
Ever
Play
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
David O. Russell
Spiritual
Me
You
Experience
Humble
Ego
Will
Think
Once
Way
Laughing
Worthwhile
Some
About
Spiritual Experience
Also
Said
Any
Getting
Then
Zen
Monk
I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a difficult moment, without any pleasantries, and said, 'I'm asking you as your president and Commander in Chief to take command of the international security force in Afghanistan.' The only response can be, 'Yes, Mr. President.'
David Petraeus
Me
You
Before
Difficult
President
Response
Security
Only
Take
Oval
Oval Office
Force
Without
Said
Command
Commander
Been
Yes
Chief
Office
Any
Afghanistan
Where
Turned
Asking
Your
Moment
International
Difficult Moment
Position
It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.
David Plouffe
People
Country
Live
Teens
Secretary
Kind
Rate
He
Over
Fairness
Does
Said
Making
His
Question
Effective
Effectively
Than
Going
Tax
Tax Rate
Taxes
Really
Paying
Warren
Less
Warren Buffett
Pays
Right
Million
I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.
David Rakoff
Saying
Grateful
Will
Be Grateful
Before
Damn
Percent
He
Opening
Said
Forever
Tumor
Door
Bigger
Hello
Even
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.
David Sedaris
Morning
You
Joke
Argument
Every
Aid
Later
Say
Someone
Invaluable
Something
Winning
February
Write
Most
Said
Been
Years
Diary
Often
Just
Quote
Whining
Use
Description
Keeping
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