David Sylvian Quotes
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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My life is an open book. There is nothing to hide here.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
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I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.
