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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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.
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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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Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.
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I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
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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.
