Abu Bakr Quotes
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
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I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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No philosopher would be willing to accept the idea of philosophy as a way of escape, but might there not be a question of the philosopher being in duty bound to refuse to accept a world, like our real world here, of disorder and crime where the values of the mind and spirit can no longer find a home?
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
