Roger Taylor Quotes
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.
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I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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Half the struggle is just getting yourself to the gym or getting yourself in your workout gear and ready for action.
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When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
