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Paul Rodgers Quotes

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: December 17, 1949

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Identity Writing You Way First Own

Whenever I hear my playing, I can't detach from my influences: there's my Jeff Beck, there's the Clapton bit, the Eric Johnson bit, the Birelli Lagrene bit, the Billy Gibbons.

Playing Influences Hear Jeff Beck

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Life Hero Impossible Know Nothing

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me.

School Me High School Think Back

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

Relationship Words Speak Someone You

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men.

Men Me Bible Places Class First

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

Rufus Wainwright

Love New York Church Find Go New

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

War Up Administration Inappropriate

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

Chris Hemsworth

Me Cricket Think Play Go Swing

I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.

Good Father I Am Happy People Way

Whatever the motivation of the 'Wall Street Journal' and other right-wing publications, it is clearly long past time for the climate denial scheme to come in from the talk shows and the blogosphere and have to face the kind of an audience that a civil RICO investigation could provide.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Time Past Face Motivation Long Wall

Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that if you go to war, you go to war to win.

War Win Appreciate Warrior You Go

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