Beth Gibbons Quotes
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I studied Morse code.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman can't be emotionally complicated or want things or can't be weak in moments.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.
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Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
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You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
