Dave Davies Quotes
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.
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I love Doritos - the nacho flavor. The Cool Ranch is good; it's a good second.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
