Steven Tyler Quotes

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

Steven Tyler Aerosmith

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• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Law
  • Action
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• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Listening
  • Sister
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• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
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• There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • School
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• We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Will
  • Taxes

• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Leadership
  • Throne
  • Bench

• I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
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• I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Brave

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Life
  • Music
  • Science

• 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Green
  • Presidential
  • Election

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Family
  • True

• I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Game
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• It is better to live rich than to die rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Die
  • Better

• I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
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  • Know

• Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Audience
  • Songs
  • Crowd

• Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Interesting
  • Wisdom
  • Photographer

• I am waiting for something to go wrong I am waiting for familiar resolve

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Waiting

• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.

  

  Charles Best

• I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Waiting
  • Lasts
  • Minutes