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"I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities."
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"I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy."
Being
"I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold."
England
"I have never had another job and I don't have a mortgage."
Job
"Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things."
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"I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training."
Job
"When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do."
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"I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids."
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"I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult."
Time
"The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created."
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