Joe Strummer Quotes
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
