Andrea Bocelli Quotes
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
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Think and grow rich.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.
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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else.
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
