Gavin Rossdale (Gavin McGregor Rossdale) Quotes
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.
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I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!
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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
