Bryan Ferry Quotes
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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Golf is not easy.
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I like things simple.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.
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To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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I suppose - in the last resort - you trust life - or you don't. Well - I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
