Joan Armatrading Quotes
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip on his shoulder is very hard to do, and that man just has it. To be that well-known and still be so personable and social, it's just fantastic.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
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There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
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I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
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He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
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I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.
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I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.
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A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
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I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
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I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.
