My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
GEORGE MICHAELI left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.
More George Michael Quotes
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It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.
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It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?
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I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
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I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.
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I’ve done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I’m dead, so I might as well write the script.
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Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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I think the media is a real demon.
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Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I’m no exception to that.
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Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
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I don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.
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Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I’m really pleased about that.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
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I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don’t know where I’m going to take my career.
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I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what’s important.
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I can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.
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I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I’m a fool, which you’ve probably worked out by now.
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People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
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If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.
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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.
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Even though it’s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it’s still effective and it still has to be done.
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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I’ve been hurt by people who I’ve had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.
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