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“I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.”

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Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,…

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I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and…

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Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

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Live music is healthy.

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I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.

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I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty…

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This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

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A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't…

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Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose…

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For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known…

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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not…

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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

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Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

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The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind…

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There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

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Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The…

David C. Cassidy

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In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private…

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I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and…

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Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better…

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Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing…

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Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country…

Martin McGuinness

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In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm…

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As has been reported, and is unmistakably evident to all but the most naïve, federal employees have been ordered to exploit this crisis, to…

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