David Talbot Quotes
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.
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Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.
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After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
