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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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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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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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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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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Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
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I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.
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I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.
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He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so. He did not have to make any announcement to Leslie that he had changed his mind about her. She already knew it.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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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.
