David Byrne Quotes

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

David Byrne

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I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

Megyn Kelly

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Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.

Robert H. Grubbs

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Jeff Rich

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What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

Steven Millhauser

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Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.

Luc Dardenne

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I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character.

Doug Liman

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I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Christie Hefner

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I didn't expect people would embrace 'Ang Probinsyano' the way they did during its first year.

Coco Martin

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Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

Pink

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We need to incentivize states across our country to spend on higher education and ensure that we go back to allowing people to go to college tuition-free.

Pramila Jayapal

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The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

Peter Jackson

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