For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
BOY GEORGEI knew style and content went hand in hand.
More Boy George Quotes
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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
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I’m always being inspired .
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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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And it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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