Famous Quotes

Quotes by Sting

• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
• About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
• As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
• I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
• I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
• I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
• I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
• I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
• I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
• I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
• I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
• I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
• I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
• I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
• I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
• I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
• I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
• I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
• I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
• If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
• If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
• In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
• In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
• In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.
• It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
• Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
• Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
• One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
• Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
• School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.
• Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.
• Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
• Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
• That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
• The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
• The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.
• There's no religion but sex and music.
• We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.
• We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
• What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.