Sting Quotes
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
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It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
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We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
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The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
