Paul Weller Quotes
I first felt a fist - and then a kick, I could now smell their breath,They smelt of pubs - and Wormwood Scrubs - and too many right-wing meetings.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
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I'm a progressive.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
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Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.
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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987
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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
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No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.
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The working class must control the factories and the country.
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So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
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The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.
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'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.
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I first felt a fist - and then a kick, I could now smell their breath,They smelt of pubs - and Wormwood Scrubs - and too many right-wing meetings.
