Steve Jones (Stephen Philip Jone) Quotes
It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
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As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
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My father was one of ten children.
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There are no sure answers, only better questions.
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When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.
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You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.
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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
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It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
