Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.
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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.
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That's painful always to lose.
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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
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You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
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Turn yo stomach to spaghetti when it hit the groundToss the choppers in the chevy then we mashin downCamelton, countin' all yo Benjamins and HamiltonsAs far as I'm concerned you just a job for the janitor
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When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of respect from the courts that other people don't.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.
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To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.
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…my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…
