David Cobley Quotes
People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
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I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.
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Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
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All my influences go into a pot like a big ole stew, and it tastes like all the years I spent trying to play the guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughn. It tastes like Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. And if it comes out bluesy, then so be it.
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When you can go on the road and get 35 at Kansas with the rock-chalk Jayhawk crowd going bananas and you make big plays to help your club leave with a win on the road like that, you've got talent. So, he's got talent.
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People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
