Dave Gahan Quotes

There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.

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• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

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• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

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• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  

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• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

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• There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
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  • Dark Humor