George Michael Quotes
I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Let's just focus on unity and love.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
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I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.
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I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.
