Andy Rourke Quotes
Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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A will finds a way.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
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Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
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Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
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Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
