C. S. Forester Quotes
There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
