David Rodigan Quotes

Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

David Rodigan

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• Radio
• Essence
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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Woman

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Real
  • True
  • Action

• There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Friends
  • Forever
  • Texas

• All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Baby
  • Perspective
  • They Say

• He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Beautiful

• Do not be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste. All are responsible to stockholders, and in my experience all are honorable men. But they must schedule what they can sell in the public market.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Control

• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  

  Alice Meynell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Nature

• I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it's going to take a lifetime to undo.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up

• Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • People
  • Up
  • Lifting

• My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

  

  James Gray
  • Feeling
  • Wife

• When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Country
  • Family
  • Alone

• For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Work
  • Singing

• I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Move

• The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Existence
  • Duty
  • Patient

• My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Simple

• I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • School
  • Crazy

• I don't think fame is that important to me.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Important

• Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

  

  David Rodigan
  • Mind
  • Radio
  • Essence