Gavin Rossdale (Gavin McGregor Rossdale) Quotes
When I was lucky enough to be successful, I distanced myself completely from the whole thing of units and selling copies. I just wanted to keep everyone who comes to see me happy. I spend so much time after my shows talking to people who come from all over the world to see me. I'll go out and sign a picture and have a chat.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.
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There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
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Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
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Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
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There were blogs that called me Miss Piggy. It's a really hard thing to see as a teenager, especially when you already have problems. Reading what people had to say about me online definitely made it worse. People can be vicious.
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I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever.
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When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.
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I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.
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I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.
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I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.
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A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.
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When I was lucky enough to be successful, I distanced myself completely from the whole thing of units and selling copies. I just wanted to keep everyone who comes to see me happy. I spend so much time after my shows talking to people who come from all over the world to see me. I'll go out and sign a picture and have a chat.
