David Byrne Quotes

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

David Byrne

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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

Jerry Saltz

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I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.

Ann Wilson

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When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing.

John Tiffany

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I'm really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.

Sienna Miller

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There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down at the same time.

Mike McCready

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I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.

Mitch Hedberg

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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

Jonathan Ames

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I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.

Christie Hefner

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In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

Brian Tyree Henry

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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

William Law

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I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

Shane Black

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I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.

Rick Smolan

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