Peter Campbell McNeish (Pete Shelley) Quotes
Without bigging it up extremely, it was something which brought people together, so they realised something was possible.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
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How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?"
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.
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The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
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The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
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Without bigging it up extremely, it was something which brought people together, so they realised something was possible.
