David Lynch Quotes
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
Quotes to Explore
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.
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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.
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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
