Dave Gahan Quotes

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Reality

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Future
  • Think
  • Party

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Animal

• I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

  

  OMI
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Hidden

• Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Season

• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • Important
  • Player

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Olympic
  • Medallist

• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Thinking

• When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get traditional deals.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • People
  • Book

• To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.

  

  Eric Church
  • People
  • Country
  • Together

• Zits are beauty marks.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana

• I think that when you sequester yourself, when you put yourself into another area where you can't be part of the main traditional culture you're limiting your possibilities in the United States and I think that's one problem.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Problem

• In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
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