Syd Barrett Quotes
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
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There can be no liberty without the law
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Ari, it’s time you stopped running.
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Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
