Ian Astbury Quotes
I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
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I think that people find that's a fresh look at a relationship between two best friends, between two soul mates, that people haven't really seen in this particular way. So that's definitely something that people are noticing.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I have a really basic uniform: in winter, black tights and any old dress that I can throw on. In summer, high-waisted jeans and this shirt, or that shirt, and a cashmere cardigan just in case.
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
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I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.
