Joe Elliott Quotes
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
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I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.
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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
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I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
