John Deacon Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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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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I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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The question of common sense is always 'What is it good for?'—a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
