Allan Gregg Quotes
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.
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My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.
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I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
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In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
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The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
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I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.
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We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.
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Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.
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I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights.
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We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.
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We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
