Winston Grime (Winston Mawdsley Graham) Quotes
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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People don't get my sense of humour.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
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Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)
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Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it...nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work.
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Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
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I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.
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Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.
