John Deacon Quotes
No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It's not like we wanted to talk about the fact that we're gay all the time, but the world has forced it to be an issue.
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The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.
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I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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There's no business like show business.
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No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.
