David Bailey Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.
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I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
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I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
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I'm not political and I don't judge.
