George Michael Quotes

Everything was meant to wind people up in Make It Big. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

George Michael

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Times

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Business
  • Team

• My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Practice

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Hard Work

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • World
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• Music is how you feel.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • You
  • Feel

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Simple
  • Care
  • Problems

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

  

  Harry Browne
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Miracles

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Working on domestic violence cases was an eye-opening experience that made me passionate to do everything possible to support and protect victims and prosecute abusers.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Experience
  • Support
  • Violence

• We've been touring for so long and people ask me every once in a while, "What's it like working with your brothers?" and I go, "What's it like not?" Our first paying performance, I was 6 years old, you know? I almost don't know anything else, so I guess it feels pretty normal to me.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Long
  • Pretty

• It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Black
  • Always
  • Strength

• Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Value

• The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Strong
  • Ego
  • Insanity

• Everything was meant to wind people up in Make It Big. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

  

  George Michael
  • People
  • Pleasure
  • Joke