Ian Astbury Quotes
There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
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In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios.
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Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.
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Desire and longing are the whips of God.
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I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.
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There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.
