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've always been passionate about fashion.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
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'I have a covenant with God. I cannot ask for anything outside what is written in the covenant. What I will achieve in this world is in a book I am carrying everyday; I just have to open the pages. Outside the book is not mine.'
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I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'
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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.
