Kate Bush Quotes
David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically. He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of it and it was so good. There are great people who make great work but who else has left a mark like his? No one like him.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.
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David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically. He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of it and it was so good. There are great people who make great work but who else has left a mark like his? No one like him.
