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.
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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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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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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
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There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
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There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.
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I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there. My dad's not particularly tall - only 5 feet, 11 inches - but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod: a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.
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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.
