David Furnish quote: "I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment."

Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence peopl...
DAVID FURNISH

We absolutely need more role models. I think we need more people to come forward and be proud of who...
DAVID FURNISH

We all live by example.
DAVID FURNISH

My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had.
DAVID FURNISH

I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends...
DAVID FURNISH

Kids will often see something different and feel insecure about it because they don't understand...
DAVID FURNISH

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.
DAVID FURNISH

I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.
DAVID FURNISH

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.
DAVID FURNISH

I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.
DAVID FURNISH

I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand.
DAVID FURNISH

If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn'...
DAVID FURNISH

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.
DAVID FURNISH

I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we ha...
DAVID FURNISH

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was ...
DAVID FURNISH

I love diamond jewellery on men, and pocket scarves, cravats, cufflinks. The trick is to throw it to...
DAVID FURNISH

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
DAVID FURNISH

I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad sel...
DAVID FURNISH

I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a...
DAVID FURNISH

I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob.
DAVID FURNISH

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.
DAVID FURNISH

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.
DAVID FURNISH

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
DAVID FURNISH

In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curab...
DAVID FURNISH

Everyone should be tested. Whenever they have a check-up, they should test for HIV, because if we ca...
DAVID FURNISH

I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone...
DAVID FURNISH

But from a social standpoint, I think it's hugely significant. It is a major, major change. It is on...
DAVID FURNISH

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs...
DAVID FURNISH

When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repeali...
DAVID FURNISH

It's interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer nam...
DAVID FURNISH

Elton and I have spoken to Madonna plenty of times lately. She and Guy are close friends of ours. Th...
DAVID FURNISH

As far as I'm concerned, I've always considered myself committed to Elton and he's the person that I...
DAVID FURNISH

Doing nothing results in an absolutely massive unfunded liability.
JEFF FURNISH

The committee did not hear any advantage to maintaining a separate FPD&R system.
JEFF FURNISH

The current approach is irresponsible.
JEFF FURNISH

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY

I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY

People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY

I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY

I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY

You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY

What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY

In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY

Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
DAVID CASSIDY

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
DAVID CASSIDY

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five yea...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
DAVID CASSIDY

We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat...
DAVID HAREWOOD

The law always limits every power it gives.
DAVID HUME

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
DAVID RUSSELL

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
DAVID MITCHELL

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that...
DAVID HARSANYI

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end ...
DAVID HEWSON

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds...
DAVID HANSON

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
DAVID SEDARIS

College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e...
DAVID SZE

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
DAVID MAMET

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ...
DAVID LACHAPELLE

Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken sk...
DAVID SAX

Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two wh...
DAVID EINHORN

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being...
DAVID EINHORN

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr...
DAVID EINHORN

I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g...
DAVID EINHORN

I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
DAVID EINHORN

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh...
DAVID EINHORN

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
DAVID EINHORN

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN

Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo...
DAVID EINHORN

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT

Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to...
DAVID TENNANT

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up...
DAVID STRATHAIRN

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,...
DAVID LYNCH

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY

I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment.

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I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment.

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