I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
Quote by Sting
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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
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Sting Quotes
- 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 come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
- One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
- 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 have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
- I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
- I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
- 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.
- I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
Best Quotes
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
- One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
- Electricity is really just organized lightning.
- Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.