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The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
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You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
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So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
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Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
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What is poker? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
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Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
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I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
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