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- I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
- You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
- Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just…
- I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
- I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a…
- I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come…
- Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is…
- I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no…
- People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
- It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've…
- I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long…
- I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of…
- Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
- I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
- The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
- 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of…
- A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get…
- All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy,…
- If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive…
- It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle