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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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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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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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.
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I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.
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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.
