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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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
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German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
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I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
