Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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A major reason so many start-ups fail is the flawed assumption that if the product is good enough, consumers will find it, the Field of Dreams philosophy of Build it and they will come. Except a lot of times, they don’t. Founders can be overly optimistic when it comes to acquiring customers instead of better preparing for what is usually a time consuming and expensive aspect of growing a business.
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People don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character
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All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
