Martin Gore Quotes
For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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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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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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'Starman' was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.
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For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.
