"For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and Diana Ross And The Supremes. I also met The Carpenters. I was actually there in the studio when they recorded We've Only Just Begun."

-- Tony Blackburn

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“Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.”
“America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.”
“I remember mother sayingÂ Â :Â Â Â Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot”
“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
“Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it.”
“Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.”
“Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.”

Source : "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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