Joe Strummer Quotes
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.Joe Strummer The Clash
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.
Idries Shah -
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.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras -
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
Samantha Shannon -
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck -
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.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
Malin Akerman -
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.
Edmund White -
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.
Victor Ponta -
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.
Dan Castellaneta -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
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.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Aaron Funk -
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
Venus Williams -
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid -
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
Kapil Sibal -
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill
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If I'm 'the kid from 'Hereditary'' for the rest of my life, I'll be satisfied.
Alex Wolff -
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
Penelope Spheeris -
I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
Bobby Riggs -
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
Lyle Lovett -
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
Joe Strummer The Clash