Quotes 761 till 780 of 837.
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When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
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When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.
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When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
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When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
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When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
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When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
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When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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