Ian Astbury Quotes
I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."
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If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
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I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.
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I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.
