Gerald Scarfe Quotes
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair
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It's not unlike what happened in tech, ... The better they do, the more people buy. What happens is the price gets really high and the compensation you get for taking on the extra risk goes down.
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Your love to me was like an unread book.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
