David Gilmour Quotes
Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
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The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
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We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.
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We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.'
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The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
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Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.
