George Michael Quotes

It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Opponent
  • Aggression

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Want
  • You
  • Point

• Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Perfect
  • Dance
  • Cute

• People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Dark
  • Understand

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Performance

• But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Trying

• I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • God
  • Live
  • College

• I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Fashion

• When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Sun

• You get from the world what you give to the world.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Give

• I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Believe
  • Memories

• When I started playing in Sweden, there was nobody watching. No one knew who I was, so I was just playing for the love of the game. And after my first season, my coach came up to me and said, 'Of all the people you're the one who smiles the most on the field,' and that was the biggest compliment I ever received.

  

  Christen Press
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Long
  • Society
  • Optimistic

• Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.

  

  George Michael
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  • Changed
  • Image