Paul Simonon Quotes
I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
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I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
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With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.
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My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
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I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
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I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.
