John Otway Quotes

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
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• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
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  • Unbelievably

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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  • Food

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
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• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

  Hailey Bieber
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• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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  • Little

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
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• Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

  

  Jack Levine
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  • Russians

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
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  • Animals
  • Medical

• To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

  

  T.I.
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• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
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• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
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• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
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• I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Lifestyle

• Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Hope
  • Quality
  • Class

• I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time
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• What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

  

  Alexander Herzen
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  • Nature

• I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

  

  Ian Doescher
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• Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

  

  John Otway
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