Damon Albarn Quotes
I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
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This is our turn at the wheel, and history will judge us based on how we handle it. Decline is a choice, but so is liberty.
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There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.
