Paul Rodgers Quotes
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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There are few forces for good as extensive and important as the United Nations. Being able to work with them and other global aid organisations for World Humanitarian Day is a humbling and extraordinary opportunity.
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This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.
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I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.
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Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
