Ray Davies Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.
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I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.
