Peter Hammill Quotes
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.
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Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
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It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.
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So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.
