David Lynch Quotes
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how people do it.
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We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
