David Byrne Quotes
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.
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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
