Dave Matthews Quotes

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

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• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Serious

• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
  • True
  • Faith
  • Acceptance

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Poor
  • Cause
  • Which

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • She
  • Man

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year's Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Water

• Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Cool

• Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

  

  John Schlesinger
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Gay

• Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Time
  • God
  • Prayer

• I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

  

  Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Children
  • Career

• I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • God
  • Relationship