Gary Numan Quotes
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
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I think the people of New York have done a pretty great job with coming together for Sandy relief.
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I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
