Charles Teo Quotes
In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
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Nature knows best.
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What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
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In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.
