Peter Gabriel Quotes
There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
Quotes to Explore
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.
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If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
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Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.
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The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.
Biz Stone -
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
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There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
