David Lyons Quotes
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
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I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
