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Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Quote by Andy Partridge about fear

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about quality, present, americans, state, perfection, day, world

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

Quote by Owen Hart about money

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about war, civilization, history, world

In the eighties I watched hard-line Marxists converting...

In the eighties I watched hard-line Marxists converting to political Islam after the collapse of their belief system.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about politics, faith

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by...

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about perfection

Expectation I'm in an expectation Only the children are passing near it playing slowly with everything existing around them from buildings ready to collapse to the most pure form of some streets surrended to wind every day. They are...

Quote by Andrei Novac about expectation, children, clothes, sky, day, life

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