Rory Charles Graham (Rag'n'Bone Man) Quotes
When I was 15, I wanted to be a jungle MC. Everybody I knew wanted to be Stevie Hyper D or Skibadee or whatever.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
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Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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When I was 15, I wanted to be a jungle MC. Everybody I knew wanted to be Stevie Hyper D or Skibadee or whatever.
