David Luiz Quotes
Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
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We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.
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Be intentional about the spaces you create but not at the cost of compromising other elements.
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Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
