Steve Winwood Quotes
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I find the reality of our emotional lives interesting.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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We are experiencing the bottom-line impact of productivity improvements and the elimination of waste.
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When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
