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I’m a perfectionist. It’s a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

George Michael

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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Democracy Fact Minority Politics Yourself
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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Heart Listening Mindset Peace Yourself
It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.
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Boundary Difficult Yourself
Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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Big Career Childhood Fantasy Moments Myself Play
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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Believe Gift God Greatness Man Music Myself
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.
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Comfortable Myself Time
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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Calculation Career Control Myself Past People
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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Age Approval Argument Musician Myself Realization Stop
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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Better Commercial Different Myself Repeat Success Thinking
Freedom. I will not give you up.
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Determination Freedom Give Up Yourself
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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Fools Myself Sing True Work
I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn’t it?
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Clothes Death Myself Perfection Time
I think the media is a real demon.
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Demon Media Myself Reality Thinking
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.
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Believe Music Myself Time Writing
I wouldn’t marry until I was ready to have children.
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Children Marriage Myself
Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
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Natural Sex
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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Dreams Fall Family Father Myself Work
I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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Joy Listening Music Myself Watch
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
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Day Father Myself Occupation Work
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.
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Before Myself Name People Professional Value
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
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Build Fast Mistake Notice Shake
I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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Age Myself People See
Only time will set you free, just like me
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Freedom Myself Time
I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
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Audience Deserve Kind Myself People Representation
I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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Attain Myself Pain Thinking Worth
50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.
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Listening Myself People Performance Scream
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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Drugs Greatness Happiness Healthy Myself

I’m a perfectionist. It’s a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

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