Boy George Quotes
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I don't have goals in life.
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I love myself and I am a good person.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
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I think I have a good head on my shoulders.
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The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
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Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
