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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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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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'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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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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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
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I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.
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What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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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.
