David Carson Quotes
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
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Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
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I always pack a travel snack bag. You don't want to get stuck without snacks no matter where you go!
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I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.
