Steve Winwood Quotes
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
Quotes to Explore
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.
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Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.
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Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
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We all are humans first. There is no religion that defines us.
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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
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I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
