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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Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
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Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'
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All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?
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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.
