Sting Quotes
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
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I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
