Quote by David Byrne
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Ive rarely kept my distance from kind of – I dont know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing. – David Byrne

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Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide theyre going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. Its just a given law. – David Byrne

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Theres something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. Theres something that invites all this obsessive behavior. – David Byrne

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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he wont take it, but somebody always does. – Bill Vaughan

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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they dont ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. – Nelson Mandela

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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. – Charles Bukowski

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Amnesty is a terrible policy, and its terrible politics. Its a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. – Tom Tancredo

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