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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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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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I don't like talking about myself.
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There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.
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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
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I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
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What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?
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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.
