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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Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
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I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.
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I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.
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All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
