Mick Jones Quotes

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

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• I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
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• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
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• Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

  

  Ed Asner
  • College
  • Thought
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• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
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• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
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• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
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• It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
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• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
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• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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• A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

  

  Mick Jones Foreigner
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