David Sylvian Quotes
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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Where, oh, where's the chain to fling,One that will chain Cupid's wing-One that will have longer powerThan the April sun or shower?
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.
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I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
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The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
