Barry Sheene Quotes
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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The human genome itself is just a parts list. The human genome with the chimp genome tells us how these parts have changed.
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I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
