David Bryan Quotes
I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
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When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'
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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.
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Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
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Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
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You can do as much as you think you can,But you'll never accomplish more;If you're afraid of yourself, young man,There's little for you in store.For failure comes from the inside first,It's there if we only knew it,And you can win, though you face the worst,If you feel that you're going to do it.
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.
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Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
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The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
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I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
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I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.
