Caecilius Statius Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
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Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
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A wise man once said, 'never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.'
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
