Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
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None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.
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Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.
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I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work.
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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.
