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Steven Morrissey Inspirational Quotes (172)

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When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.
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They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.
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Robert Smith is a whingebag.
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I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
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I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
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Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need
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People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate.
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I find Christmas very difficult.
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I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!
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These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.
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As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
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A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began
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I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.
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I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.
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I always seem to be singing against the grain.
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I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.
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Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life
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It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).
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I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.
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I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.
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I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.
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Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
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Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.
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I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.
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