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College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e... DAVID SZE Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the wor... DAVID SZE The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of ... DAVID SZE I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, whe... DAVID SZE For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying... DAVID SZE One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and... DAVID SZE The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money,... DAVID SZE The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being... DAVID SZE We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough ... DAVID SZE A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our ... DAVID SZE I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is h... DAVID SZE When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, thr... DAVID SZE We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying ... DAVID SZE I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies ... DAVID SZE The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the ... DAVID SZE When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matte... DAVID SZE 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... 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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... 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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... 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