David Byrne Quotes

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

David Byrne

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MusicCulturePeopleThinkYouKind

I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.

Matt Mullenweg

TimeThingsMy TimeLearnedTon

I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.

Robert Cray

ManPrettyMuchOne-Woman

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Rudolf Bing

BusinessMoneyMaking MoneyOpera

I don't love being on the road.

Matt Berninger

LoveRoadBeing

Some people probably think me telling Godard's story is blasphemy. My friends were worried. But he's not my hero or my god. Godard is like the leader of a sect, and I'm an agnostic.

Michel Hazanavicius

LeaderGodHeroPeopleMeThink

What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.

Joshua Cohen

TimeMyselfMeBelieveFeelHeaven

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

Joseph Stiglitz

DemocracyFightingViewYoungSay

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

China Mieville

BeautifulParentsMeLookingName

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

FoodMeStoryFamousTroubleHard

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

Clarence Stein

BeautyLightSpaceSmallHouseAir

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Bono

PeopleFreeFactsLibertyWantLike

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Arne Duncan

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