Joe Strummer Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
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I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
