Syd Barrett Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.
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I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
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My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.
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I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
