Dave Sim Quotes

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • High
  • Education

• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Battle

• New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Succeed

• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Perfect
  • Space
  • Modern

• I am an economist, not an astrologer.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Economist
  • Astrologer

• I like to be against the odds.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Like
  • Against
  • Odds

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Engineers

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Advice

• The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Business
  • Future
  • Profound

• Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Success
  • Champion
  • Modesty

• What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Good
  • Power
  • Interesting

• I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Always

• Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Passion

• An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

  

  Ayobami Adebayo
  • Expected
  • Degree
  • Middle-class

• Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

  

  Alvin O'Konski
  • Destroyed
  • Heritage
  • Replaced

• Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.

  

  David Shields
  • City
  • Religious

• I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

  

  Dave Sim