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.

  

  Quentin Bryce
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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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
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• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
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• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
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• Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Like
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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Engineering

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • House
  • You
  • Immigration

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Challenges

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Real
  • Know
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
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  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Day

• In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Father

• I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Money
  • Guitar
  • Musician

• The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Reason
  • Students
  • Novel

• Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Long
  • Business

• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Guitar