David Bryan Quotes
A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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There are too many things to count that I like about London.
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A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.
