Noel Gallagher Quotes
Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.
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Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
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Seeing your music, how it actually affects people, it just encourages me to stay true to myself and write stories that I relate to and that are real to me, an experience that I've had.
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Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
