bell hooks Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
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I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
