Gary Barlow Quotes
I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.
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I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!
