Victoria Wood Quotes
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
Quotes to Explore
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
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If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
