Dave Davies Quotes
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
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I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.
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In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
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Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
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There is no fashion so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer.
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It's important to let your subjects be themselves.
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In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.
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Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.
