Oliver Sykes (Oliver Scott "Oli" Sykes) Quotes
I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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I did most of my schooling in Miami.
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DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
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Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.
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My music's gonna evolve as I get older.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.
