Syd Barrett Quotes
I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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I guess music is very global.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.” “Just most things.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
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I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.
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I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
