Dave Matthews Quotes
We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.
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I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
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I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.
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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
