Rod Stewart Quotes
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
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You're taught - consciously or sub-consciously - to make an indie so you can get through that terrible process and get to Hollywood. I realized when I got there, 'Oh, no; I think I'm better over here.'
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All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a good husband and father, and to provide for my family.
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
