Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy) Quotes
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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Love, and do what you like.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
