Martin Gore Quotes
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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We just here to do our job.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the moment the opportunity presents itself, without violating the rules of judo.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
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How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
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All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
