Martin Gore Quotes
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
Quotes to Explore
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.
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Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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My real name is Keneti James Fitzgerald, but K.J. stands for Keneti James, which is a Samoan name.
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We built a business on relationships, and that's what matters to us.
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God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
