Felix Dennis Quotes
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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Music is about the performance.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?
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After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.
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Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
