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My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.

George Michael

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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Face Obscene Play Quite Thinking Touch
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Age Approval Argument Musician Myself Realization Stop
Because 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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Compassionate Media Place Resource Run Teaching World
I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Joy Listening Music Myself Watch
As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Before Myself Name People Professional Value
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Family Father Myself
My music is some of the most honest music that’s been released and I think that’s why people buy it.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Honesty Music Myself People
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Comfortable Myself Time
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Democracy Fact Minority Politics Yourself
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Change End Myself Past Perfection Position
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Day Father Myself Occupation Work
I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Each Other Ideas People Romance Thinking
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Appearance Connection Myself Time
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 MICHAEL

Believe Music Myself Time Writing
There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Reluctant Stars
This is a very fickle business. It’s really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Business Fame Myself Value

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