David Bailey Quotes
It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
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The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy projects in Qatar, the United States and the Asia Pacific region, as well as our re-entry into Libya and our increased equity ownership in LUKOIL. We remain committed to replacing reserves at competitive finding and development costs.
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I just spent three years on 'The Office.' I made enough money that I can take five weeks out and do a play.
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It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
