"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

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"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."

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"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

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"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

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"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."

"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit."

"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter."

"Architecture theory is very interesting."

"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff."