Anton du Beke Quotes
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.
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I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.
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The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.
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People who cover Apple figured this racket out a long time ago, which is that if you become cozy with Apple and never criticize them, they will give you some access.
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My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
