David Gilmour Quotes
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
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The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.
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From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.
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You never find peace in this realm, but it's okay, because when my dad went to the other side, he looks after me now better than he did in life. He is with me all the time.
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No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
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With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
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Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
