Edwyn Collins Quotes
I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.
Edwyn Collins
Quotes to Explore
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
Ian Frazier
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile Selassie
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie
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When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and fro throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.
David Jeremiah
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We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.
Gilberto Gil
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He's living permanently in Bahrain. He has friends there who have been very loyal and helpful to him in a difficult period of his life. He's looking much better. He's with his children, and he's moving on in life.
Thomas Mesereau
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I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.
Count Basie
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I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.
Edwyn Collins
