David Knopfler Quotes
If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
