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Steve Winwood Quotes

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

Steve Winwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: May 12, 1948

Topics

Music People Think Changes Sixties

I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.

John Grant

Vision Happy People Sick View Pig

I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!

Tom Ford

Change Daughter Time Fashion Vintage

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television. But while growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world.

Roger Ross Williams

Me Mom Growing Up World Cinema Kid

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

Rupert Murdoch

Proud Australia Become Nation Those

I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can't really take credit for it, though - all the members of my family do. A lot of arm wrestling happened in our family growing up!

Michelle Monaghan

Family Growing Up Credit Nice Muscle

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Michael Morpurgo

Child Short Remember Attention Young

What I'm concerned about are two things. I think one that John Miller talked about, and that's the radicalization over the Internet that ISIS is very adept at doing. The other one is a foreign fighter threat.

Michael McCaul

Think Internet Doing Fighter Over

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

Liz Phair

Me Cool Think Self Trying Out

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

Jay Weatherill

Government Chance Colleagues Role

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

Diane Ackerman

Time Shopping Trees Aesthetic Cattle

If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.

Chiang Kai-shek

Freedom Equality People Democracy

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Mind Outside Afraid Theory Capacity