Paul Simonon Quotes
I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
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I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie
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I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
