Dave Smalley Quotes
Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I've been very lucky.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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Two eyes our souls possess: While one is turned on time, The other seeth things Eternal and sublime
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I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
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The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality.
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Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.
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Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.
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Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
