Barry Gibb Quotes
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.
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I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.
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Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.
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'Man In The Mirror' by Michael Jackson - I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
