Limahl (Christopher Hamill) Quotes
That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.
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I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.
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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.
