George Michael Quotes
I had a very important personal point to make with this song I Want Your Sex. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times.
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Michael Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.
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I had a very important personal point to make with this song I Want Your Sex. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.
