Steve Winwood Quotes
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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I like period pieces.
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When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.
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I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
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One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.
