Saint Basil Quotes
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
