Gavin Extence Quotes
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?
Quotes to Explore
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I've never been a partier.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
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How could you not wanna be in 'Doctor Who' at least once in your career?
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You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.
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People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
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Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
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If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?
