George Michael Quotes

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Action
  • Party
  • Club

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Chance
  • Wise
  • Luck

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Run

• When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Business
  • Me

• Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Years
  • Size

• We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Free
  • Moral

• Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Run

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mother
  • Musician
  • Become

• A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People

• Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• I definitely get inspiration from the 'gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women.

  

  SZA
  • Women
  • Inspiration
  • Pictures

• I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

  

  George Michael
  • Life
  • Think
  • Attain