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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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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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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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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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 am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.
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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.
