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David Byrne Quotes

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: May 14, 1952

Topics

Bike Brooklyn Place Little Manhattan

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Life Ideas Kind Things Interested

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.

Culture White English Kids Many Had

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Thinking Audience Watch Film Give

You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.

Growth America You Forget Want Real

I already visited Rwanda when I was five, but I don't really remember my roots.

Roots Remember Five Rwanda Really

The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.

Heart Time Me You Feeling Nothing

We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.

Travis Kalanick

Car Want Point Get Uber Cheaper

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

Tommy Lee Jones

War People Me Old Attack Sense

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would be reading from hand-copied scrolls.

Rest Reading You Jewish Obscure

The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

Philadelphia Concentration Capital

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

Jared Padalecki

Funny Love Think Comedy Why Guess

I remember the first vinyl I bought: 'Purple Rain,' my favorite Prince album, ever.

Rain Remember Purple First Vinyl

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