Rod Stewart Quotes
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
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Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't help that we wear waistcoats and tweed the whole time. But there is a reverse snobbishness in England towards that sort of stuff. And I think that's one of the reasons we really enjoy America, 'cos we're classless.
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
