Gary Numan Quotes

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

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• I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Never
  • Hopeless
  • Bright

• Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Real
  • Real Life

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Yield

• Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parents

• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • May
  • Man

• Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Stand

• I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Lawyer
  • Legal

• At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Age
  • Night
  • Light

• A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Authenticity

• Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Truth
  • Same
  • Truth Is

• My job means I work late.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Work
  • Job
  • Late

• What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Political
  • Historical
  • Gender

• In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
  • May
  • Double

• Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic.

  

  Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Senator
  • Rivalry
  • Hatreds

• I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Wanted
  • Sorry
  • Months

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint