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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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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I read very one-note. Teacher's pet, Goody Two-shoes. I'd hate to be annoying. Who wants to see movies with someone annoying in them? But it's hard for me to paint myself as anything but whatever it is I come across as - which is pretty together.
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That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
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You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.
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Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut down the Fed and its ability to distort the economy, penalizing labor, or make the Fed's distortions available to all businesses and all workers.
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My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
