Peter Hook Quotes
It was only after we recorded Unknown Pleasures that I could hear and begin to take notice of the words, and it was quite startling then to see how they changed between that album, where they were still quite detached and aggressive, to Closer, which is even darker and not detached at all but really introspective and quite frightening—especially of course when you listen to it in light of what later happened.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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The unknown is always frightening.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.
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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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My dreams never died, they just changed. I still have dreams every day.
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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.
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It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.
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It was only after we recorded Unknown Pleasures that I could hear and begin to take notice of the words, and it was quite startling then to see how they changed between that album, where they were still quite detached and aggressive, to Closer, which is even darker and not detached at all but really introspective and quite frightening—especially of course when you listen to it in light of what later happened.
