Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
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If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
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'They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.'