Paul Rodgers Quotes
I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
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It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.
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I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
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I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
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I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.
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It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
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I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.
