My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
GEORGE MICHAELBe good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
More George Michael Quotes
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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.
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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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I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
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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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I think the media is a real demon.
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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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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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Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
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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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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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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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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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Only time will set you free, just like me
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Teacher, there are things that I don’t want to learn.
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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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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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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 still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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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 the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
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All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.
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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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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 have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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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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