David Blanchflower Quotes
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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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.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.
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Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
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People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.
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Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
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Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.
