Paolo Nutini Quotes
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
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Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
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When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.
