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If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

Michael Palin

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In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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I do not follow superstitions on court.

Ana Ivanovic

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Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Steve Blank

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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Stephen Jay Gould

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The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

Rod Stewart

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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Joseph Heller

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I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

Delta Goodrem

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Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change.

Dawn Richard

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When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.

Bobby Womack

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Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Bruce Dickinson

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