Rod Stewart Quotes
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Everybody grows but me.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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I always knew I'd go to space.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.
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I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'
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The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.
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I really feel gratitude every day in my life that I'm able to do what I love, and I think, because I have that passion and spirit, I've had success.
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I have lived a great life. I am very happy.
