Peter Ackroyd Quotes
Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.
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The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.
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I don't read a lot of MMA news. I try to stay out of it.
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The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.
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Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.
