Bruce Forsyth Quotes
When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'
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There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.
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Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.
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When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
