Dave Matthews Quotes
I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
Quotes to Explore
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.
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Letters of friendship require no study.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.
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I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
