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I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.


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DAVID HEARN Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
DAVID HOCKNEY Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn th...
DAVID ORTIZ 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
DAVID BRAINERD The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T...
DAVID LEVITHAN You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
LARRY DAVID Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting f...
LARRY DAVID I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
LARRY DAVID I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
LARRY DAVID Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
DAVID PERLMUTTER We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of pre...
DAVID AGUS Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
DAVID RUDISHA