David Quotes

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped.

Church on time, makes me party.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

Being right doesn’t mean you win. You win by establishing credibility, a relationship, and trust.

Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.

Dont bring a candlelight vigil to a gunfight

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.