David Knopfler Quotes
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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I've done a contract with my district. I have term-limited myself. I am not taking the pension. I am not taking pay raises, and my family and I are bringing our own health care to Washington, D.C. And my dad taught me as a kid to lead by example - Congress should not have anything better than the American people.
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Actually, I think it's interesting that when I put the weight on, I was already with him. I don't know, maybe I felt safe. And he likes me like this. He likes me whatever size I am.
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When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!
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Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.
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There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.
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Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
