Stewart Copeland Quotes
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
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I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.
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There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
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I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.
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My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.
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I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.
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When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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I've got Arabic music in my blood.
