Torquil Campbell Quotes
We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
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The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
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We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.
