Brother Dave Gardner (David Gardner) Quotes
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
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To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.
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Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.
