Jamie Cullum Quotes
I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
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The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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A seed is small in size. But it carries in its womb leaves, flowers, fruits, nay even the whole tree. The human brain is very much like a seed. It may not have a great shape and size. But it traps within itself endless possibilities. It is a fountainhead of thoughts and promises that can be fulfilled.
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I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
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Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.
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You cant think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
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I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.
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I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
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The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?
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I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
