George Michael Quotes
I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
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I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.
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Are you in my dream too?
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.
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I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.
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Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
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I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
