David Byrne Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.
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Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.
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I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
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Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
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My parents were incredibly inclusive.
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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You know, where have you - what have you been doing? You know, and you find yourself sitting next to Jesus, and he's rather an agreeable man. And you have an opportunity to say, so what went down then, you know, that night? And it's supposed to be like him just sort of telling you very conversationally. That was the idea I had. Whether it - whether it comes - came off or not, I don't know.
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Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
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There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
