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David Byrne

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

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

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

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"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."
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"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll."
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"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"
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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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"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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