Chris Squire Quotes
On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.
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It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
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I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.
