David Byrne Quotes

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

David Byrne

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ComebackFinancialAmericaInjustice

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Joan Jett

GoodWalkYouWantOutStomach

As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

Matthew Pearl

HistoryBelievePressureYouNew

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

Jean-Michel Jarre

SeaMeWorldProblemsHumanityDead

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.

Steve Schirripa

TimeQualityQuantityQuality Time

I am drawn to courageous women.

Rosamund Pike

WomenI AmCourageousDrawnAm

We thought we could reinvent the way people came together for live events. We wanted to ticket everything from a five-person yoga class to a 10-person cookery class to a fashion event.

Julia Hartz

LiveTogetherPeopleFashionThought

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Jose Clemente Orozco

UniverseCreateExploreRaiseCould

I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'

Drew Carey

GoodCarMindRoadEnoughYear

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

Chris Elliott

MeThinkGoingWholeIdeaI Think

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Martin Amis

LifeWillTurnOutUniversalSense

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Dave Freudenthal

DreamsOpportunityActionBelieveGo

Anything to do with 'The Office' I would revisit.

Craig Robinson

OfficeAnythingWouldRevisit

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