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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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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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
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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?
