Adrian Utley Quotes
Playing guitar can be so many things. It’s been my salvation, my way of making a living.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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I don't believe in murder.
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
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A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.
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I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.
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If (pitch counts) were a panacea to our problems, I'd be all for it. But disabled lists are loaded with pitchers. There's hardly a pitcher living anymore that hasn't had surgery.
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Playing guitar can be so many things. It’s been my salvation, my way of making a living.
