Steven Tyler Quotes
When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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'...I’m a typical Englishman of my class - a crank idealist.'
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At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.
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Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.
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I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'
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When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.
