Flume Quotes
I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I was a tomboy.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.
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I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.
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But I sense a fair amount of experience in the room, along with the youth.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
