Philip Treacy Quotes
I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the 'Jewish conspiracy' - which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
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The process of being brought up, however well it is done, cannot fail to offend.
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The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women’s equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men’s equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman’s child-bearing womb.
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Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.
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Closed societies are now the flimsiest of illusions, for all the outsiders are demanding in.
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Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.
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I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
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And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
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Fluency is smooth, rapid, effortless use of language.
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Food is the common language for all of us.
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I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.
