Mike Oldfield Quotes
I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
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To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.
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You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
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Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.
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The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
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When Jesse started to cry, I found that I'd been expecting it. I know a breakdown when I see one. In the kitchenette behind me, my phone flashed into life, but I knew the importance of what Dr. Adil calls full-body listening when someone is trying to unburden. You take your attention away at the wrong moment, you even mistime your blinks, and the trust is gone.
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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
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The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.
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The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they need to look really good in their home district and state. That means good local press. That means people in their district thinking, "Man, I really don't like Congress, but I like Senator Bob."
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.
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For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.
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My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.
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When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.
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I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.