John Graham Mellor (Joe Strummer) Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
Rand Paul -
All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
Taio Cruz -
I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
Rae Carson -
I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
Tamara Tunie -
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
Vernon Howard
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
Abraham Lincoln -
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
F. Sionil Jose -
A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
Nate Silver -
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian -
I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
Kajol -
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
Paddy Ashdown
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
Nathaniel Branden -
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
Walter Mosley -
I'm taking a vow not to advise.
Barbara Bush -
I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.
Gareth Gates -
For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.
Frederick Douglass
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
Jules Verne -
You try so hard to make something that's fun and exciting, then all anyone wants to talk about is how no-one likes you. It gets very grinding. I had to let the chip I have on my shoulder about that go.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie -
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey -
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.”
Alexander Shulgin -
I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers