Jeffrey Tate Quotes
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
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Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I'm the fastest man in mixed martial arts.
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I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.
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I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own.
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I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
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I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
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I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
