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 not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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We cannot continue to control areas of the territories where most of the Palestinians live.
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If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
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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.
