Dave Matthews Quotes

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

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• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Character
  • Cold
  • Late

• I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Song
  • Single
  • Kid

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Play
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• I never worked in an office in my life.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Religion
  • West
  • South

• I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Awesome

• There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Want
  • Moment
  • Said

• All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Health
  • Growth
  • Baby

• I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Write

• Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Action
  • White

• I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Kind
  • Try
  • Possible

• About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Language
  • Impossible
  • Try

• Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Fire
  • Stupid

• And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Joy

• I'm so positive.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Positive

• The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

  

  Laurie R. King
  • Dog
  • Irish

• When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, and mercy by Jesus Christ to his soul; when he is convinced of his utter unworthiness and desert of hell, and can never expect any thing from a just and holy God but damnation, how do the first dawnings of mercy melt and humble him!

  

  John Flavel
  • God
  • Soul
  • Jesus

• I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Character
  • Project
  • Lawyers

• Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

  

  Sugar Ray Robinson
  • Like
  • Fighting
  • Barbaric

• I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

  

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