Gerry Rafferty Quotes
You still got that light in your eye,And our day is comin’ by and by.I’m travellin’ this long road here with you;We still gotta long way, we still gotta long way to go.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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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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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I still have a young attitude.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.
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As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.
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You still got that light in your eye,And our day is comin’ by and by.I’m travellin’ this long road here with you;We still gotta long way, we still gotta long way to go.
