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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Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be positive or negative and, frequently, some combination of the two.
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As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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Thierry Henry is Thierry Henry. I still have everything to prove. By continuing to work, I will try to reach his level, but I am still very far off.
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Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.
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I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.
