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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
— David Byrne
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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…
— David Byrne
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Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio,…
— David Byrne
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned…
— Gabriel Byrne
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going…
— Gabriel Byrne
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
— James F. Byrnes
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Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does…
— Buzz Aldrin
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
— Lord Byron
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
— Lord Byron
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
— Lord Byron
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
— Lord Byron
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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
— Lord Byron
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from…
— Lord Byron
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A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
— Sholom Aleichem
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You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.
— James Caan
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One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went…
— James Caan
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No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.
— Sholom Aleichem
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To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is…
— Sholom Aleichem
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One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick,…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are…
— Sholom Aleichem
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
— Vince Cable
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This…
— Vince Cable
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities…
— Vince Cable
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth…
— Vince Cable
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No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
— Meg Cabot
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