Paul Rodgers Quotes
When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get... y'know, one likes to have some home life.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
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I have not always held the position I do today on the life issue.
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When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.
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What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
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When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get... y'know, one likes to have some home life.
