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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My dad dated a lot of supermodels.
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I do personal appearances, and I meet my fans, and I am genuinely honored that they come out to say 'hello' and just to see me. It's so fantastic to see that they give it back.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
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The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.
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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.'
