David Dixon Quotes
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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I don't fear anything now.
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We are in an industry where, unfortunately, there is very limited scope for female-oriented roles. If we don't have options, how can we pick and choose roles?
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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I'd do anything to help veterans.
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Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
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I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.
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Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
