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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It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.
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If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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It's a sign of the times. You only have to look at the changes to the Australian Schoolboys line-ups over the past four or five years.
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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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.
