Paul Rodgers Quotes
Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.
