Rory Charles Graham (Rag'n'Bone Man) Quotes
My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
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You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.
