Steven Tyler Quotes
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people – not a large group, but quite a few people – who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.
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We don't do 150 date tours because you couldn't keep the intensity and standard we need over that stretch of time. You see bands doing it all the time, playing along, going through the motions, thinking 'Did I water the plants?' We come to each gig fresh and we live that gig, it is full-on, total commitment. It is an hour of pure concentration.
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Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.
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I like to wear short-sleeved collared shirts and high-waist trousers with shiny shoes. And at night, when I'm playing, I'll often wear suits. But it started with my uncle's vintage clothes.
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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
