Quotes by scottish authors

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. David Byrne

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I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. David Byrne

You Yourself Mind Filtered Approach About Through Most Concerned End Up Craft Censor Then Use Your Conscious Conscious Mind

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. David Byrne

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I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. David Byrne

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United. David Gill

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Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years. David Gill

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Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. David Gill

People Out Some Mercenary Make Quite Them Players

The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy. David Gill

Great Win Important Club Everyone Record Trophy Cup Want

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football. David Gill

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue. David Gill

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The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that. David Gill

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We have sensible fans and sensible policies. David Gill

Fans Policies Sensible

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. David Hume

World Pure Advantages

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. David Hume

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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. David Hume

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. David Hume

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume

Hope Joy Fear Poverty Propensity Sorrow Real Riches

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. David Hume

Man First Christian Philosophical Most Sound Essential Being Letters Believing

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. David Hume

Men Melancholy Thrown Knees Passions Than Much Agreeable

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. David Livingstone

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Fear God and work hard. David Livingstone

Work God Work Hard Fear Fear God Hard

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward. David Livingstone

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