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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson

Time, Book, Revolution

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
Charles Stanley

Patience, Waiting, Before

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.
Rush Limbaugh

Everything, After, Wanted

How I love David Bowie.
Lady Gaga

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Blessings

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
David Byrne

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
Michael Caine

Famous, Become, Everyone

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
Camille Paglia

Time, Spiritual, Political

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
Camille Paglia

Change, Respect, True

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

Humor, Good, God

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.
Keanu Reeves

Gay, Saying, Thought

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Madeleine L'Engle

Work, Great, Art

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
Boris Johnson

Cynical, Supporting, Cameron

I'm a big David Lynch fan.
Jonathan Davis

Big, Fan, Lynch

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
Sting

Work, Big, Wanted

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Great, Live, Brother

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.
Diablo Cody

Love, Work, Best

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
Carly Fiorina

Future, Past, Fight

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
Adam Lambert

British, Plant, Male

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
Clive Owen

Crazy, School, Sun

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
Robert Duvall

Sleep, Wife, Greatest

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
James Wolcott

Everyone, Off, Show

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
Joaquin Phoenix

Music, Him, Country

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
Sammy Hagar

Sad, Nothing, Different

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
Liza Minnelli

Hard, Unfair, Sound

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
Harvey Weinstein

Movies, Talk, American

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen

Music, Home, Stupid

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.
Elton John

Yeah, Eight, Furnish

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.
Elton John

Singer, England, Margaret

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
Theresa May

Government, Leader, Moment

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