Clive Sinclair Quotes
I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I love New York.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
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The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.
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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
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I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
