Andy Rourke Quotes
My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.
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My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.
