David Lowery Quotes

I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha.

David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven

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• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Giving
  • Always
  • Grateful

• With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Old

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Choice

• I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I have a pig valve.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Pig
  • Valve

• We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Always
  • Things
  • Manager

• There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Good
  • Wise

• It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Live
  • Fun

• Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Time
  • Future
  • Culture

• I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Family
  • Control
  • Better

• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Calm

• I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Think

• When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

  

  Peter Higgs
  • She
  • Wife

• Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

  

  Gangaji
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Persons

• In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?

  

  Eileen Simpson
  • Grief
  • Dead
  • Spirits

• Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Thinking
  • Waiting

• I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven