"I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man."

-- Barry Sheene

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Championship Quotes

“And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.”
“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
“Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.”
“I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'”
“But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?”
“THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone (1973). “The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.29, Springer
“Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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