David Means Quotes
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
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Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.
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We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.
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I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
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Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.
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Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.
