David Edwards Quotes
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
Quotes to Explore
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
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The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.
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I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
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The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
