David Blanchflower Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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So he swears he'll mever marrySays that cuddles are a curseJust tell him plainYou're on the next trainIf love don't get you first
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
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The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
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What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
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Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
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I used to always want to play the perfect match, and this meant not losing a point. The realisation came around the time I was 19 years old, in the French Open final in 2007. This was a key period in my career. I was told I was going for too many winners, which was affecting my game.
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If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
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Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.
