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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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.
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I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.
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And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
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I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
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One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.
