Joe Strummer Quotes
I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?
Quotes to Explore
-
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
-
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
-
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
-
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
-
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
-
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
-
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
-
I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
-
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
-
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
-
This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
-
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
-
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
-
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
-
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
-
Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
-
I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
-
I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
-
When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
-
Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.
-
Spoofed robocalls are often used by fraudsters to lure consumers into scams and avoid detection.
-
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
-
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
-
I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?
