David Bryan Quotes
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
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He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.
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We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
