Lil Dicky (David Andrew Burd) Quotes
I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.
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I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.
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I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.
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We must realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.
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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
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Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.
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I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
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I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.
