- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.
- Cassette
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- Nov 07, 2020