John Graham Mellor (Joe Strummer) Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
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There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
