George Michael Quotes
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It does bother me when they tabloids drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.
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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
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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.
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I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?
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This was absolutely an attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.
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I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
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I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.
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There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
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Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
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Obviously, Wham! made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.
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This stuff marijuana keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
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In the rest of the world we had had two albums that were successful, so those two albums' hits and this new four-single package made up an album called Wham! The Final, which is basically greatest hits. We couldn't have done a greatest hits over here, because we'd only done one hit album.
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I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
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I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.
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People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
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It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
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My parents both came from very poor working-class families.
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I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.
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I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.
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It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
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You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.
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My father was not a musical man.
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I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
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I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme of the Faith album.