Damon Albarn Quotes
What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and go to the same job... and the other is to reinvent yourself. I think I reinvent myself all the time. The idea that I would have to be one thing for the rest of my life would just be a soul-destroying idea.
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With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.
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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
