Francis Rossi Quotes
I'm very bad at being an actor or guitarist. The sign on my gravestone would be, 'I've been getting away with it all my life.'
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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The magic's in my hands When in doubt I whip it out I got me a rock 'n' roll band It's a free-for-all
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
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The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.
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I'm a perfectionist, which is bad at times but very good at other times.
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I'm very bad at being an actor or guitarist. The sign on my gravestone would be, 'I've been getting away with it all my life.'
