Paul Weller Quotes
I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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It was just total instincts. I just let it go.
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I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.
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Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
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As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
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I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.
