David Byrne Quotes

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

David Byrne

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LearningAttitudeSupportStartYou

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

Jennifer Egan

MeEnjoyFindTeachCallingWhile

Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.

Jennifer Grant

StomachBondingHeBothSleeps

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.

John Malkovich

GreatColorsFruitEatingThink

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Stanislav Grof

FearDeathImportantOpeningRadical

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

TodayGovernmentCorruptionDoneWay

My kids are my greatest achievement.

Jason Priestley

AchievementGreatest AchievementKids

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

TruthTruth IsOriginalUsDiscover

The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

Douglas Hodge

TimeMenSchoolCompetitionTalent

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Comte de Lautreamont

StrengthMyselfMindMeThoughts

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

Brett Young

CommunityBestNashvilleSongwriting

From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.

Anthony Browne

ArtLovedFindingFirstSomething

All I care about is providing and living every day. I don't care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.

Tyson Fury

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