Gavin Rossdale (Gavin McGregor Rossdale) Quotes
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
-
I turned down a lot of films.
-
I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
-
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
-
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
-
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
-
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
-
On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
-
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
-
As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
-
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
-
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
-
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
-
There is no must in art because art is free.
-
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
-
I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
-
There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
-
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
