Sting Quotes
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
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I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
