David Grubbs Quotes

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

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• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Mind
  • Find
  • Unconscious

• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • High
  • Morning
  • Cost

• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Woman

• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • People
  • Real
  • School

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Myself
  • Planning
  • Economic

• No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fancies

• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Kind
  • Creative
  • Special

• I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Parents
  • Problem
  • Same

• Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Dancers

• If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Car
  • Ultimate
  • Mobile

• Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Success
  • Comedy
  • Looking

• It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Beginning
  • Gay
  • Audience

• I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fun
  • Learning
  • Like

• Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Humanity

• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Existence
  • Clear
  • Piece

• Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Different

• You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. What has happened to me now has not happened of itself, but it is clear to me that it was better for me to die now and to escape from trouble. That is why my divine sign did not oppose me at any point. So I am certainly not angry with those who convicted me, or with my accusers. Of course that was not their purpose when they accused and convicted me, but they thought they were hurting me, and for this they deserve blame.

  

  Socrates
  • Death
  • Blame
  • Hurting

• I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Kind

• There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

  

  David Grubbs
  • Part
  • Strict
  • Materialist