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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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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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.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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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.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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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.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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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.
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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!
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God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
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'Blessing without good health is a crisis because you cannot enjoy it.'
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Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.
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Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
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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.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term 'cerebral palsy,' I usually get one of two responses. They either think of a smiling, crumpled child in a wheelchair on a poster or commercials on late night TV with lawyers enticing parents of CP kids to sue the pants off their obstetrician.
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Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.
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I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
