David Byrne Quotes

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

David Byrne

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I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

Jessica Chastain

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I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.

Jessica Simpson

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I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

Jenna Fischer

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

John Dryden

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The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Andrew Cuomo

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I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.

Matt Letscher

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I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.

John Ridley

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Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

Stephanie Coontz

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When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.

Shirley Temple

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There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

Mary Timony

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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Djuna Barnes

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I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Dick Dale

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