Rod Stewart Quotes
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
