Geoff Downes Quotes
I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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I don't usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.
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Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.
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I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.
