My mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs – by the time I was about 17 – she started to believe in me, musically.
GEORGE MICHAELBecause of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We’re taught that you have to grab what you can before it’s gone. It’s almost as if there isn’t time for compassion.
More George Michael Quotes
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Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
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At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
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I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn’t work out, I would have something to fall back on.
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I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.
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My music is some of the most honest music that’s been released and I think that’s why people buy it.
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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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This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I’d say it’s a great drug – but obviously it’s not very healthy.
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I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
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I’d never touch anything. I think it’s foolhardy to play around with the face that you’ve been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.
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I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
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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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Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
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I couldn’t change anything without changing the end position, and I’m perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it’s left me here.
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