David Gilmour Quotes
I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Dates are great because they're a high-energy fruit with a lot of fiber.
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Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.
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Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
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I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
