Len Goodman Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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You are just your intelligence.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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There's people who can, like, dive into material for hours and hours and hours and work on one tiny little specific thing without getting bored of it. Learning how to do that was, like, very useful.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
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I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.
