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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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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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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You're always going to have terrorism.
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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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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.
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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
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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.
