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.
John Graham Mellor
The 101ers
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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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.
Nargis Fakhri
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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.
Victoria de los Angeles
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
Garson Kanin
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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.
A. R. Rahman
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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.
Lady Gregory
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
Hans Kung
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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.
Valeria Golino
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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.
F. Sionil Jose
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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.
Omari Hardwick
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If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life.
Fredric Jameson
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
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Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
David Icke
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My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Marian Keyes
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Perhaps he's just a vehicle To bear us to the hills of Truth That's Truth spelled with a great big T And peddled in the mystic's booth There are oh so many miracles That the western sky exposes Why go looking for lilacs When you're lying in a bed of roses?
Joan Baez
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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.
John Graham Mellor
The 101ers