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I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
Paul McCartney
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
Theodor Adorno
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
Anthony Doerr
What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
Michel Patini
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
Geezer Butler
There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.
Michel Patini
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
Gavin Bryars
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Marquis de Sade
George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.
Peter Mayhew
Be gentle and learn how to suffer. When one suffers patiently, one suffers less.
Anatole France
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
David Bowie
The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.
Tom Kite
Apollo was just too big, like flying a big transport airplane, which fighter pilots don't really revere. Gemini was just about the right size.
Wally Schirra
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
Fran Drescher
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
Richard M. Nixon
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus
So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
Marc Newson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson