Rod Stewart Quotes
I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
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I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
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Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.
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I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
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The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.
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The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.
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Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
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Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.
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Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
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I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.
