Syd Barrett Quotes
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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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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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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I can't do any competitive sport myself!
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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There's always a source for humor.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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The team goals are always more important than individual goals. The ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl and to do something special. The other little goals that you guys write up, those things take care of itself in the midst of playing football.
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I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
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It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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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.
