Favourite Quotes
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The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.
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The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
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San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
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I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
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'Big Day Out' is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.
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A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.
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Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.
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Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.
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Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.
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A drunken evening that spawned probably my favourite track. Thom's one-take vocal crouching in the corner was particularly memorable, he may have been unable to stand. Love colin's bass groove thing on this.
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Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.
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Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
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All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
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Everyone's me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
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The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
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My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.
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Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.
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I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.
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It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
