Paul Robert Morley Quotes
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
Quotes to Explore
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
Natan Sharansky -
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
Kate Beckinsale -
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
Barry Diller -
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. Lewis
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates -
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Never put a sock in a toaster.
Eddie Izzard -
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
Irving Stone -
When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
Mac Thornberry -
I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
Maiwenn
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Karl Kraus -
All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.
Laila Ali -
I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
Pat Metheny -
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton -
All love is unrequited. All of it.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
Karan Johar
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I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.
James McAvoy -
There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child -
When we improvise freely - that is, without a structure - it tends to sound more like 20th century classical music, more like a classical ensemble improvising, as opposed to a free-jazz group, where you're more used to hearing saxophones honking.
John Abercrombie -
I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."
Rashard Bradshaw -
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise