Roland Gift quotes
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“Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.”
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“While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.”
-- Roland Gift -
“I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.”
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“It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.”
-- Roland Gift -
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“I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.”
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“Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.”
-- Roland Gift
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“Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made”
Source : Song: Someone Like You, Album: 21
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Source : Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”
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“Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
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“You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.”
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“Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.”
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“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise”
Source : "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.
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“Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.”
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