Keith Emerson Quotes
My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
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I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
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The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I think that Republican analyst Steve Schmidt had a great line about Donald Trump, which is, Americans clearly voted for change , but they didn't vote for chaos. I think people are feeling unnerved all around the world, because they see a chaotic set of directions coming out of the White House, and they're not sure what it all means.
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My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
