Bonnie Tyler Quotes

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • School
  • Kids

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Group

• The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Always
  • Autobiography

• I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • Really
  • Bond

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

  

  W. Allen Wallis
  • Work
  • Government
  • Economic

• I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Mind
  • Cool
  • Waves

• I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Up
  • Reading

• I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

  

  Bonnie Tyler
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