Gary Numan Quotes
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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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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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.
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I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.
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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
