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.'
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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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Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.
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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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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.
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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.
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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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.
