Damon Albarn Quotes
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
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This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.
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Gone beforeTo that unknown and silent shore.
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In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
