Paul McCartney Quotes
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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'I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.' 4
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50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
