David Lowery Quotes
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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.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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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.
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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.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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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.
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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.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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I have a pig valve.
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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.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself.
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I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.
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My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.
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If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha.
