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.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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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.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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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.
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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.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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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).
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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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.
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Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.
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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.
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When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.
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For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
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Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
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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.
