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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
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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.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
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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.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Society
  • Jesus
  • Disrespect

• 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.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Remember
  • Man
  • White

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Love
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • People
  • World
  • Working

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Down

• While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mother
  • Musician
  • Become

• We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• For a person to have a contented life, they have to find something that challenges them and respond to it…

  

  Art Farmer
  • Life
  • Challenges
  • Respond

• Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps.

  

  Itay Talgam
  • Life
  • Creativity
  • Forms

• And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.

  

  Philo
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Excellence

• I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Growing
  • Learning

• 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.'

  

  Francis Rossi Status Quo
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Guitarist