Sting Quotes
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
Quotes to Explore
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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People tell me I'm like the country version of Justin Timberlake. Actually, the other day someone told me I was an unathletic version of Justin Timberlake, and I was like, 'I'll take that.'
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It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
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Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
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The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
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I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
