Simon Rattle Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.
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The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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I really had to figure out who I was and be confident in my own skin. Now I've done that, and I'm very happy in a relationship.
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The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
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I always try to stay aggressive. I always use my strengths and always work on my weaknesses to get better. That's just who I am.
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Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
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I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.
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I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.
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Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice.
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Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
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'Career' is not a musical term.
