David Means Quotes
What I appreciate about Radiohead's work - and it's most evident in 'Hail to the Thief' - is how the juxtaposition of narratives on the band's albums somehow creates a sense of wholeness.
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is an attitude.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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We work and that is godlike.
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You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
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I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable.
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I speak my mind. That's who I am.
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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
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What I appreciate about Radiohead's work - and it's most evident in 'Hail to the Thief' - is how the juxtaposition of narratives on the band's albums somehow creates a sense of wholeness.
