David Gilmour Quotes

You don't want to believe everything you hear.

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• It's those damn critics again.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Again
  • Damn

• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Kind
  • Style

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • Pressure
  • Key

• I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Peace

• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Movies

• Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Kid
  • Crush
  • Biggest

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • You
  • Space

• One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Christian
  • Years
  • Favourite

• I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Up
  • Know
  • Cutting

• There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Up
  • Child
  • Young

• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Energy
  • Kid
  • Films

• There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Men
  • Book

• There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Moral

• Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Truth
  • Word
  • Orpheus

• Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• You don't want to believe everything you hear.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Believe
  • Hear
  • Don't Want