Martin Gore Quotes
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet – pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
