Tom Odell Quotes
I think music is better listened to with other people. Music is better shared. It depends what situation you're in - if it's a song by Tom Waits, it can be nice to be on your own, but if it's something slightly more upbeat, it's amazing to be around people.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
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'Mud' was a depository for a little more nostalgia and just a different kind of feeling, a different kind of mood. Something that's not so dark. Something that does actually have a happy ending and is a little more hopeful.
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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I'm drunk when it comes to clothes.
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I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
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I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.
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I think music is better listened to with other people. Music is better shared. It depends what situation you're in - if it's a song by Tom Waits, it can be nice to be on your own, but if it's something slightly more upbeat, it's amazing to be around people.
