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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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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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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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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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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When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
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I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.
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I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It's our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I'm on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.
