Jeffrey Tate Quotes
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
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It's not just jobs that are being lost to other countries. We are seeing whole industries vanish overseas.
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All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.
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All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.
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By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
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I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
