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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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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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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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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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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There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.
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Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock every day, is what gave me this sensibility and drove me to explore my fascination with art.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.
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You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made for women because we're quicker and we're smaller than men, and so we're faster. You girls really should take martial arts.
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Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.
