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Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Peter Gabriel

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Peter Gabriel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 13
Composer
Drummer
Film Score Composer
Musician
Poet
Singer
Vocalist
Chobham
Surrey
Peter Brian Gabriel
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Flower
Bigs
Transmitted
Dream
Brilliance
Ends
Sexually
Even
Dressed
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To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.
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I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.
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Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
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People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
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I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
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The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
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Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.
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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
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From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.
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Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
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I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
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I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
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