Ben Lovett Quotes
I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
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Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.
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So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.
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Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
