John Otway Quotes
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I get a great high from writing.
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There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.
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When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
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As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.
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I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.