Ian Astbury Quotes
Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I grew up in New York.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
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I don't like to compare myself with anybody.
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I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
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Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.
