Sting Quotes - Page 3

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• Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

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  Men, Boots, Combat

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• It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

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  Song, Writing, Easy

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• I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

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  Philosophy, Blessing, Miracle

  Song: If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

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• Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

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  Real, Lasts, Emotion

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• An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

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  Uncles, Guitar, Canada

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• I realize that nothing's as it seems.

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  Realizing, Seems

  Song: Desert Rose, 1999

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• Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

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  Real, Breaths, Real Freedom

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.129, Dial Press

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• Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

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  Education, Past, Teach

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.129, Dial Press

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• Love is stronger than justice.

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  Love, Justice, Stronger

  Song: Love Is Stronger than Justice, Album: Ten Summoner's Tales

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• I see a city in the desert lies
  The vanity of an ancient king
  But the city lies in broken pieces
  While the wind howls and the vultures sing

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  Kings, Lying, Vanity

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• I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

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  Want, Loser, My Family

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• Melancholy is no bad thing.

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  Melancholy, Bad Things

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• I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Lips, Lip Service

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• I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

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  Travel, New York, Coffee

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• I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

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  Football, Wrestling, Usa

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• I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

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  Fame, Bigs

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• My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

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  Interesting, Singing, Getting Older

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• I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

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  Writing, Play, Band

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• 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.

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  Family, Children, Kids

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• If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

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  Intelligent, Civilization, Kitchen

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• I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

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  Song, Albums, Body

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• Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

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  Yoga, Journey, Long

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• I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

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  Catholic, Church, Week

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• If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

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  Children, Rain, Mean

  1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 14 Apr.

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• The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Journey

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