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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If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.
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I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.
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Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.
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A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
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If you go to certain cable news shows, you're generally going to hear the viewpoints that you already have reported back to you. I think there's no harm in that.
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Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
