Felix Dennis Quotes
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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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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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!
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The tradition you were born into was your home, Brother Wayne told me, but as Gandhi once wrote, it should be a home with the windows open so that the winds of other traditions can blow through and bring their unique oxygen. “It’s good to have wings,” he would say, “but you have to have roots, too."
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
