John Entwistle Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Justice is revenge.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.
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I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
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I don't wish my career on anyone.
