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I wave to the double-decker b...

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

There's still a feeling that ...

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

The very best [infographics] ...

The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means - allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would take many pages and illustrations and tables to convey. Insight seems to happen most often when data sets are crossed in the design of the piece - when we can quickly see the effects on something over time, for example, or view how factors like income, race, geography, or diet might affect other data. When that happens, there's an instant "Aha!".

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

Things fall apart, it's scien...

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

I'm afraid that everything wi...

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

When everything is worth mone...

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

Music was an experience, inti...

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

As everything becomes digitiz...

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

I'm afraid that reason will t...

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

I always think the everyday i...

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

Some artists and indie musici...

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

Maybe every city has a unique...

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

Performing is a thing in itse...

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

The city is a body and a mind...

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

I think I had a mild case of ...

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

With pop music, the format di...

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

I ride my bike almost every d...

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

Work aside, we come to New Yo...

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Devid Byrne 41 quotes

When I was in high school, th...

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

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The physical sensation of gli...

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....