Roger Taylor Quotes
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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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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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Women just love to shop.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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I play golf once in awhile. I certainly love to train. I'm also a big fan of NASCAR and Japanimation.
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I like to think of myself as a pure rebel;
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It's weird because people think the biggest guys are the biggest eaters, but fat doesn't expand as much as muscle, so you want someone with a big frame who can expand.
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
