David Gray Quotes
I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
-
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
-
I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
-
I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
-
When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
-
We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
-
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
-
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
-
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
-
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
-
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
-
If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
-
I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
-
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
-
I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
-
If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
-
Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
-
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
-
The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
-
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
-
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
-
I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.
-
I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.
