Joe Strummer Quotes
London Calling - Yes, I was there, too,And you know what they said? Well some of it was true.London Calling at the top of the dial…And after all this, won't you give me a smile?
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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There is no truly global justice.
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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
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I gazed at that small boat and said to myself, mhh, I am a Mkwere without swimming skills. Better for Membe because he has married in Mbamba Bay. He can swim.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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London Calling - Yes, I was there, too,And you know what they said? Well some of it was true.London Calling at the top of the dial…And after all this, won't you give me a smile?
