Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
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Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.
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'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
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I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
