Dave Matthews Quotes
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
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Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
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I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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First time directors - they may not make good movies all the time but they are always the best directors to work for because they’re always so excited, always so committed to what they’re trying to do.
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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
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I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
