George Michael Quotes
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Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
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My father was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.
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It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?
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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.
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At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way my father could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
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I lost my partner Anselmo Feleppa to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.
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I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.
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I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.
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I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.
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"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.
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I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
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Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe.
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The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we with Andrew Ridgeley were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
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I thought first girlfriend was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.
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The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
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I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.
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Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
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I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.
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I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
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When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.
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We with Andrew Ridgeley didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.
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Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.
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I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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When Andrew Ridgeley first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.