Boy George Quotes
I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
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Vidal is determined to be a) in the thick of things, and b) above the fray. He knows everybody and he doesn't want to know anybody. He has had lovers by the thousand while doing 'nothing' - deliberately, at least - to please the other.
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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
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Growing up from Nirvana to all the bands I was listening to at the teenage time, those were my best friends, more than my real friends. Those were the people that sang me to sleep or gave me the confidence I needed to go to first period. When we're all so insecure with weird stuff, when we're having weird feelings toward girls or guys, or whatever. It's the insecurity of life that we all go through. So music helped me.
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If you go through the regular process of the House and Senate passing companion bills and then try and work out differences in the conference, maybe we can get something done.
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But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
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I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
