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David Byrne Quotes

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

David Byrne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Creativity Believe Poverty Down Will

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

John Byrne

Improvement Small Reality Feel Bad

The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.

Robert Graham

Nature Process Original Sense

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

Matt de la Pena

Write Always Side Because Who Maybe

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

John Pilger

Writing Reality Looks Test Days Our

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Roy Keane

Attitude Try Stay Relaxed Off Hour

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

Rupert Murdoch

Business Day Man Risks People Doing

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

Jarvis Cocker

Thinking Learn Week You Play Three

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Dinesh D'Souza

Father Identity Ideology His Obama

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.

Dennis Bergkamp

Saying You Know Strange Line Bottom

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

David Viscott

Good Us Disease Discover Cure Our

I don't get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I've put them.

Brad Holland

Ideas Remember Where Get Trick Them

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Children World Never Forget Year