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There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
Christopher Lee
Great
People
Dark
Bad People
Sadness
Dark Side
Think
Side
We Cannot
Ourselves
Bad
Tried
Put
Doing
Stop
Cannot
Us
Across
Villains
On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.
Christopher Lee
Family
Side
Back
Some
Pottery
Count
Name
Trace
Cousin
Came
Italian
Years
Famous
Rome
Across
Who
Painted
Original
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Christopher Marlowe
Ride
King
Triumph
Through
Passing
Brave
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
Control
Believe
Every
Chaos
Purely
Horror
Oblivion
Fiction
Us
Moment
Shows
Illusory
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
Man
Rain
Miseries
Disasters
Accepting
Cow
Stoicism
Conformist
Average
Average Man
Standing
Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.
Conor Maynard
People
Advice
Style
Own
Show Off
Out
Give
Online
Off
Getting
Getting Started
Stand
Your
Show
Uniqueness
Now
Started
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
Great
Religion
Our
Minds
Bit
Says
Only
Wrong
True
Wiser
Feels
Always
Go
Intellect
Blood
Than
Being
Flesh
Bridle
Belief
Believes
Life is short, so go for things you enjoy.
Darcey Bussell
Life
You
Life Is Short
Enjoy
Go
Short
Things
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
David Bailey
You
Because
Anything
Really
Copy
I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.
David Beckham
Love
Time
Day
Treat
End Of The Day
Job
Something
Doing
End
Hobbies
Hobby
It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.
David Beckham
Life
People
Treat
Important
Walks
Manners
Way
Should
Treated
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
David Bowie
Art
Think
See
Between
Boundaries
Art Forms
Any
Forms
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.
David Bowie
Myself
Change
Looking
Looking Back
Progressing
Back
More
Throw
Feel
Imposing
Balls
Lot
Than
Confident
Curve
Fun
Why
Need
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David Bowie
Struggle
Learning
Age
Enthusiasm
Older
Settling
Everything
Crisis
About
Had
True
Read
Comfort
How
Go
Exist
Hitting
While
Youthful
Letting
Letting Go
Things
Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
David Bowie
Spiritual
Me
Relationship
Anxiety
Worldview
Consistent
Tend
Songs
Like
Make
Sound
Been
Themes
Figures
Searching
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
David Bowie
Time
Loyalty
Me
Integrity
People
Matter
Believe
Changing
Perceive
More
Contemporaries
Stylistic
Real
Continuity
Subject
Subject Matter
Than
Artifice
Any
Artist
Why
What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.
David Coverdale
You
Yourself
Think
Else
About
Anybody
Anybody Else
Really
Thinks
Consequence
Anything simple always interests me.
David Hockney
Me
Simple
Always
Anything
Interests
Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.
David Icke
Humanity
Alien
Control
Babylon
Must
Brotherhood
Consume
Maintain
Blood
Human
Reptiles
Who
Appearance
Actually
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.
David Icke
Winter
Bible
Book
Three
Christian
Later
Sun
Ancient
Would
Would-Be
Days
Know
End
Died
December
Literal
Then
Cycle
Reborn
Believed
Actually
Start
Jesus
Symbol
Symbolic
Christians
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
David Ogilvy
Buy
Consumers
Advertising
Content
Form
Decide
Really
Your
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
David Whyte
You
Conversation
Herself
Tell
Invitation
Contains
Inviting
Himself
Another
Reveal
Always
Real
Person
Want
Who
Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
David Whyte
Blame
Honesty
Fault
Will
Not Knowing
Live
Carry
Know
Knowing
Ultimately
End
Where
In The End
Story
Us
Full
Who
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
David Whyte
Truth
Honesty
Honesty Is
Become
Understanding
Powerlessness
Revealing
How
Effect
Afraid
Fully
Found
Deeply
Honest
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
Desmond Morris
Cats
Soldiers
Like
Dogs
Artists
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
Opportunity
Will
Hundred
Given
Simply
Talents
Blossom
Unexpected
Any
Human
Being
Anywhere
Capacities
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