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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You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
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Until I got the weight off, there was something inside of me that said, 'You hate yourself.' You get too depressed over the weight to really work on this. For whatever reason, I had to take the weight off to do this work.
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When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.
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When a hot woman walks by, and we ask if she's your type, refrain from saying things like, 'Nah, I like a woman with a little meat on her bones' as you give us a squeeze.
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I've got thick skin.
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I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.
