Pete Burns Quotes

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

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• Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Party
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• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Party
  • Myself

• I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • You
  • Stand

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• Every time, I try to make something different.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Time
  • Different
  • Try

• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Waste Of Time

• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Job
  • Want

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Party

• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Time
  • Country
  • Problems

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
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• Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Country
  • Risk

• You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Business
  • Tea

• Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

  

  Monica Raymund
  • Director
  • Directors
  • Brothers

• No one can live under degradation.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Live
  • Degradation

• You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

  

  Charles Dance

• On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

  

  Pete Burns
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  • Reflection