Saul David Quotes
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
Quotes to Explore
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
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His opinion is his opinion - and it's just that. I don't have anything negative to say about him, and I don't have anything negative to say about the situation.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.
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We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
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God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
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Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
