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GARY F EVANS... Dance like David did till your healing comes
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ADOLFO CAMBIASO And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
BIBLE As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
IMAN Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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JOYCE MAYNARD I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
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MARIA HEADLEY We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
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GIA COPPOLA You did, you changed my life and made me a better person
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ADAM GONTIER I did not have anything to offer in the final and to be honest David was just too good.
ANDREI PAVEL Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
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DAVID HUME Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
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DAVID RITTENHOUSE I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
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