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.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Childhood
  • Thought
  • Fact

• 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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Change
  • Forever

• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Generosity
  • Ruin
  • Moderation

• 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.

  

  Cam
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Society

• The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Game
  • Way
  • Win

• You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • You
  • Church
  • Go

• 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.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• 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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Seriously

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Learning
  • Tombstone
  • Diploma

• 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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Joy

• I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Simple

• That’s the thing, chato. I’m not the one to tell it, and you aren’t the one to hear it, but rest assured that it’d be pretty tough to figure out …

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Rest
  • Thing
  • Figure Out

• I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Men
  • Real
  • Remember

• I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don't believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on 'Seinfeld,' because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.

  

  Bill Lawrence
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• 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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