Marc Almond Quotes

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

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• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

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• I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.

  

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• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

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• The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

  

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• My schedule is so crazy.

  

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• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
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• You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

  

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• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

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• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
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• I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
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• But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Done
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• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

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• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

  

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• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

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• What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

  

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• All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

  

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• There are a lot of forms of exercise where you have to leave yourself out of the room while you force yourself to do this thing. With Pilates, I get to bring my true self. I cry, I laugh. I get to go, 'Where is my body today? What do I need today? How can I take care of myself and push myself past my comfort zone?'

  

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• Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

  

  Elton Welsby
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• We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Music
  • Process
  • Loved