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Pete Burns Quotes

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: August 5, 1959 - October 23, 2016

Topics

Depression Me Respond Well Hit

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Start Feel Die Go Forget Well

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

Sojourner Truth

Truth Travel People Me Name Down

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Complicated Matter Race Size Shape

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

School Quit Because Spell I Quit

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

Michael Shermer

People Mind Reason Vacuum Turn Void

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

Power Real Estate Brain Physics Real

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.

Home Grateful Me Story End Skill

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

Great Friends Trying I Can Alive

I have a problem with bullying.

Bullying Problem

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

I Am Looking Forward Looking Forward

Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.

Work Truth Children Want Way Never

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

Peter Diamandis

Today Think You Stop Invention Over

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