Dave Gahan Quotes
I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.
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I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.
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But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
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I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.
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The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
