Pete Burns Quotes
How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'
Pete Burns
Quotes to Explore
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
Harold MacMillan
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
Sam Kean
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. Hughley
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
Tananarive Due
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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
K. D. Lang
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln
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I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
Ted Danson
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PsychologÂy is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Oscar Wilde
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War is capitalism with the gloves off.
Tom Stoppard
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I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
Adam Arkin
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
Warren Christopher
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You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.
Harvey Korman
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I was in Iowa one time, and I kept trying to fire up the crowd, and I kept saying, 'How's Ohio doing?' For some reason, they just weren't coming around!
Eric Church
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How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'
Pete Burns
