Gary Kemp Quotes
I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
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There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
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I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.
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I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
