David Agus Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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I love women.
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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
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I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
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Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
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No don't you know my daddy told me,Told me right from the startAbout youth.He said no matter how old a man is,He's partly a boy in his heart.Yeah, and that's the truth.
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Suppose that I wish to deserve the title of 'robber of remorse' and that I place in myself all the townspeople’s repentence?
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
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Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
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If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.
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We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.
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The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.
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Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.
