Pete Burns Quotes
The idea of travelling all over the world singing the same songs sounds like hell. How people like Tina Turner still do it with enthusiasm is beyond me.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I like things simple.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I know what poverty is.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
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I've heard Donald Trumps ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
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It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
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The idea of travelling all over the world singing the same songs sounds like hell. How people like Tina Turner still do it with enthusiasm is beyond me.
