Iain Sinclair Quotes
As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
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Any time you criticize these young guys, they call you a hater. They never ask you if the criticism is fair or not.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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I will say this: Rapping-wise, there has never been anybody to match Tupac's energy when coming on a song, like when rappin'. It's unmatched. You can't duplicate it.
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As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
