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?
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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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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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In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.
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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all.
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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?
