Pete Waterman Quotes
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I won't join another band again.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
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I wasn't put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn't my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.
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In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'
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When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
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I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.
