Bryan Ferry Quotes
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
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I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.
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You learn from it, then you have to come back to work. I've been in this predicament many times.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
