Syd Barrett Quotes
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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Women just love to shop.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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It's exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There's obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
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The truth is, the people here know nothing of the republican Negro hate prevalent in our glorious land. They measure and esteem men according to their moral and intellectual worth, and not according to the color of their skin. Whatever may be said of the aristocracies here, there is none based on the color of a man's skin.
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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
