Midge Ure Quotes
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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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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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.
