- Flight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just Quotes
On simplicity and things that just come together.
The word 'just' does a lot of work in these quotes, minimizing effort, describing creativity in unexpected places, or downplaying how a career path came about at all. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents raised me on Spooky Tooth and The Band, Derek and the Dominoes, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, all that stuff. Rock n' roll was just in my subconscious.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.
- Nov 07, 2020