Bob Gill Quotes
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
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I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.
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Football. It sounds simple, but it's always been the case - I don't see myself living without playing.
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It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
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There's been roles that I have turned down. There's no rule book or handbook... It's just... whatever I'm comfortable with.
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I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
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We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.
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I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
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I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.
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I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer.
