Keith Floyd Quotes
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
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Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
