Oliver Sykes (Oliver Scott "Oli" Sykes) Quotes
I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.
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Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.
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I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.
