Charlie Sykes Quotes
It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
