Kevin Ayers Quotes
These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.
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I'm an old guy, so I started out playing 'Pong' with my brothers, and 'Mario Bros.' and whatnot. But we really got involved and got intense when 'Tecmo Super Bowl' came out. That's when we really started playing video games, and it got intense.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.
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These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
