Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.
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I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
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The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.
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Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
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Le progrès, cette grande hérésie de la décrépitude.
