Ian Brown Quotes
I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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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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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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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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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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The image of the band has always been something that's evolved or changed with every record cycle that we've done. I think, in a lot of respects, that's because we were so interested in having a visual representation for the music that we were making.
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I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.
