Joe Strummer Quotes

Too many songs have been written about love already, you know? Subject's covered.

Joe Strummer The Clash

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• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Doing

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Human
  • Race
  • Realize

• I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Internet
  • Well
  • Versed

• If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

  

  Edmund White
  • Marriage
  • Never
  • Gay

• People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Love
  • New York

• And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Me
  • Mean

• Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Fear
  • Faith
  • Always

• In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Future
  • Past
  • View

• I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Night
  • Prayer
  • Others

• Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hand
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• I believe that none of us are fully free when others in the human family remain shackled by poverty or disease or oppression.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Free

• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sky

• She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Management

• Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

  

  William Golding
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Beast

• So ist vielmehr der Fall, daß das Volk, insosern mit diesem Worte ein besonderer Theil der Mitglieder eines Staats bezeichnet ist, den Theil ausdrückt, der nicht weiß was er will.1

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Fall

• I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.

  

  Lorde
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • People
  • Home
  • Taken

• Too many songs have been written about love already, you know? Subject's covered.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash