Paul Weller Quotes
The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In fact, everyone! So I let them burn to a certain degree, and then I put out the fire for a while.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
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The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
