George Michael Quotes
The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we with Andrew Ridgeley were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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It's a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it's sort of unreal in a sense.
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Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
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I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
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I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.
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I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
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You can't use the fact that I'm bisexual against me if that's something I'm proud of.
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The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we with Andrew Ridgeley were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
