Steven Tyler Quotes
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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Prayer can do anything that God can do.
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Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
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In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
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My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
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The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
