David Knopfler Quotes

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

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• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Attention

• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Direction

• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Day

• In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Country
  • School
  • Best

• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • World
  • Just
  • Camera

• Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Quality

• I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Argue
  • Mitt Romney

• I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • You
  • Know
  • Lyrics

• As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • May
  • True
  • Small

• Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Brazil

• I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Idea
  • First
  • No Idea

• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wisdom
  • Healthy
  • Wisest

• The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • True
  • Respect

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that in-forms the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

  

  T. H. White
  • War
  • Reason
  • Dozen

• There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

  

  Bruce McGill
  • Good
  • Job
  • Star

• I have a 48-hour rule. No drinking two days before a start. But those other days? Yes, I'm gonna go out. If I was locked up in my house all week, I don't know what I'd be like on the baseball field.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Up
  • House
  • Baseball

• One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Kind
  • Information
  • Internet

• Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

  

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