Paul Rodgers Quotes
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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God never consults your past to make your future.
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No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.
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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
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We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
