Gavin Rossdale (Gavin McGregor Rossdale) Quotes
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.
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I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough.
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In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
