David Gilmour Quotes
Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
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I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a sort of a condescension in our dialogue with other societies, which was especially painful in several administrations to Russia. I think in Russia, the Yeltsin period is not considered a period of great achievement, but a period of corruption and humiliation.
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Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
