David Foster Quotes
There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.
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I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.
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There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.
