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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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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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
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Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
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I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
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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?
