Ian Dury Quotes
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
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'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
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I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.
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It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
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'Spasticus Autisticus', On Countdown (Australia) 1981
