Mike Oldfield Quotes
Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
Quotes to Explore
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority.
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Nothing is Given, Everything is Earned.
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I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
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Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
