Dave Gould Quotes

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Courage
  • Rules
  • Limits

• My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Believe
  • She
  • Sister

• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Talent
  • Everyone
  • Fifty

• Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Violence

• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Sure
  • Dull

• 'you don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow'

  

  Kid Cudi

• Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Done

• I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

  

  Arizona Muse
  • Children
  • Career

• George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

  

  Mark Shields

• Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Girl

• I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Political

• I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Soul
  • Chicago

• Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Technology
  • Radio
  • Eaten

• Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Reality
  • Courage

• The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Powerful

• The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Smile
  • Gone
  • Bats

• We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Good
  • She
  • Decision

• Come on, somebody be brave.

  

  Dave Gould
  • Brave
  • Somebody