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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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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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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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
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All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.
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I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
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Reality doesn't interest me.
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Without bigging it up extremely, it was something which brought people together, so they realised something was possible.
