David Bryan Quotes
I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.
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I'm cranky.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
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It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God.
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The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
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I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.
