Mark Walport Quotes
Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
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Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
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I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.
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Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
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Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl.
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I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
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Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
