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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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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I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.
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You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.
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I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.
