Pete Waterman Quotes
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.
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When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.
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You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
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It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
