Barry Gibb Quotes
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I don't think everything has to be new all the time. You don't have to have the latest designer all the time to look good. Just have things you're comfortable with, have key pieces that you can sort of reinvent over and over again, and always keep things that you really love for a while.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
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SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
