John Deacon Quotes
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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To be honest, many of my well-wishers want me to play the solo lead in films. Maybe, it's time to think about it. In fact, I have cut down on signing up multi-starrer films.
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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
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The first deaths will barely swell the daily count, and no one in the statistics bureau will notice that extra zero. But after a while everyone will begin to look at each other and ask: what's happening? Because for months doors and windows are going to rattle, furniture and trees will creak.
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I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
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For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.
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The artist make things move, and is moved. He is policeman, motor car, everything at once. He who makes things move also creates rest. That which aesthetically is brought to rest is art.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
