George Stroumboulopoulos Quotes

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

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• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

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• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

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• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  

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• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

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• I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.

  

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• I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

  

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• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  

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• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

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• I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

  

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• Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.

  

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• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

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• I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.

  

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• As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.

  

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• To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.

  

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• I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

  

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• I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

  

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• As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

  

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• The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

  

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• Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

  

  George Stroumboulopoulos
  • Music
  • Change
  • Sports