Charlemagne Palestine Quotes
I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.
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Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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I remembered what had been circling in me: I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.
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I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
