Jeremy Bentham Quotes
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
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Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
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'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart.
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
