Damon Albarn Quotes
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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They hate whom they fear.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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We love writing hit songs. That thrills us.
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The media is controlled.
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There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.
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In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
