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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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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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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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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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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Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
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I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.
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The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige; and concentrate our united efforts towards solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.
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When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.
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The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing three or four of them off the team. They hate each other so much that they don't even look at each other. I've never seen such people before.
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So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.
