Steven Tyler Quotes
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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A staple in my makeup bag is Black Opal's True Color Skin Perfecting Stick Foundation, which offers a range of colors with many undertones.
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As I get older, I feel like I look better with less makeup. More makeup just creases more and looks like you tried too hard to cover up a bunch of stuff, versus 'OK, I've got decent skin, and that's what I'm going with.'
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I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.
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Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.
