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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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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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
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Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.
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NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.
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Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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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.
