Joe Strummer Quotes

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Joe Strummer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002

Topics

YourselfBlameLearnSomeoneYou

The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.

Jeff Sessions

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I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Sidney Sheldon

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I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Tom Stoppard

LifeMoreWriteEconomyAlwaysLine

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Rush Limbaugh

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People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Michelle Branch

GirlPeopleMeSweetNiceKind

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

Mitch Hedberg

HeroDownKnowPantsRealUp

I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms.

Jordin Sparks

UpWearBecauseArmsLikeCover

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Christopher Lasch

CapitalismUnderstandingValuesClaim

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Chuck Palahniuk

GreatMoneyWordsFightThinkWay

I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.

Brantley Gilbert

PeopleCompanyGotTestsPublishing

Acting was something fun that my dad did, but baseball is what he really wanted to do.

Wyatt Russell

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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

William Osler

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