David Knopfler Quotes
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
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When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
