Anthony Browne Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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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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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
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Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
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For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
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In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.
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Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
