Rick Wakeman Quotes

I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn't have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south.

Rick Wakeman

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As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Jennifer Hyman

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Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

John Milius

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I think people expect me to dress a bit like Veronica from 'Shameless,' in vest tops and denim skirts.

Maxine Peake

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The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.

Jeff Koons

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I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

Mercedes McCambridge

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It's very hard to come up with ideal situations... With different moods and the difficulties of traveling around, I often play my best under the worst conditions.

Stephen Hough

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My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

Troy Garity

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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Roger Ebert

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I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

Moby

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I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

Josh Duhamel

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When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

David Sze

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I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.

Brittany Howard

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