Joe Strummer Quotes
I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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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.
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It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
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I overthink decisions when I should really trust my heart.
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One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
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I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
