Joe Elliott Quotes
Selling out to America? That pisses me off. We're not the first English rock band that went to the States.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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I love honest men, and a I love a man who is loyal to women.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.
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Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.
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People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.
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A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.
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I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.
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Selling out to America? That pisses me off. We're not the first English rock band that went to the States.
