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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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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I'm not political and I don't judge.
