David Lowery Quotes
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
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On a TV show, you don't know where the character is going.
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I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.
