Marc Bolan Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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I honestly feel it could all end tomorrow. Not just the band thing - I mean life.
