David Niven Quotes
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
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There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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It is Earlier Than We Think.
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Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.'
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According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.
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It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.
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During all my concerts, I always dedicate some time to sing songs I've written for telenovelas and for other friends, and this one is always a favorite one.
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Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
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Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique.
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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
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The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.
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Malta is a sod of a place.
