George Galloway Quotes
What you have witnessed since Christopher Hitchens’s opposition to the 1991 invasion of Iraq is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly into a slug.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
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I think it is helpful having a history other than playing music. We've toured a lot together, hung out a lot. So, we knew each other pretty well before we ever got together, which is important. You could probably call on the greatest studio musicians in the world and it doesn't mean they can work together.
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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
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What you have witnessed since Christopher Hitchens’s opposition to the 1991 invasion of Iraq is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly into a slug.
