Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'
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As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.
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The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.
