David Byrne Quotes

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

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• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Wealth
  • Taste
  • Product

• To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Fly
  • Nothing
  • Airplane

• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Successful

• Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Thanks
  • Congress

• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Time
  • History
  • Never

• Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Health
  • Same
  • Neighbors

• Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • She
  • Kind
  • Teacher

• Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Years
  • Strange
  • Old

• Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • People
  • Faults
  • Other

• The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Process
  • Group

• They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • God
  • Art

• Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list of prestigious scientific supporters, I feel convinced that the subject will not.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Book

• My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • Work
  • Simple

• Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Romantic

• People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People

• I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • God
  • Heart

• Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Reading

• There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as any other white actor. That's what I'm trying to get at.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Trying

• I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I'm in flower-power shorts and a headband - so not cute - and I'm fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn't believe I was standing next to her.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Single

• Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

  

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