Roger Taylor Quotes
After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys.
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The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.
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Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
