Peter Garrett Quotes
In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I just can't read music.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.
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The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
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Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!
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In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
