Barry Gibb Quotes
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
