John Graham Mellor (Joe Strummer) Quotes
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
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I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
