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At 17, I wanted to be a rock star.
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Anthony McCarten
New Zealander
Novelist
Born:
1961
Topics
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Rock Star
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Wanted
,
Star
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
Time
Angry
Word
First
Angry Person
Cast
Civilization
Instead
First Time
Rock
Began
Person
I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times - happy, sad, and otherwise - but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.
Amruta Khanvilkar
Sad
Hope
Strength
Me
Happy
World
Mother
Lost
Otherwise
Immense
Only
Through
Had
Lifted
She
Rock
Am
Pillar
Been
Up
Times
Closest
Stood
Moments
Even
Belief
Her
My mom is definitely my rock.
Alicia Keys
Mom
Definitely
Mother's Day
Rock
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
Muhammad Ali
Medicine
Sick
Only
Week
Alligator
Thrown
Thunder
Lightning
Make
Rock
Whale
Stone
Done
Jail
Mean
Brick
Injured
Last
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis
Will
Before
Gone
Hundred
Hundred Times
Split
Had
Perhaps
Know
Look
Without
Rock
Hammering
His
Times
Crack
Did
Blow
Stone
Much
Showing
Away
Last
Two
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca
Family
Stays
Steady
Only
Institution
Know
Rock
Works
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards
Music
You
Guitar
Other
No Point
Point
Picking
Know
Rock
Rock And Roll
Up
Roll
Any
Blues
Form
Popular
Popular Music
Playing
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
Alice Cooper
You
Vote
Listening
Moron
Rock
Rock Star
Than
Get
Order
Bigger
Information
Your
Who
Star
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
Saying
Freedom
You
Suffering
World
Punk
Pain
Musical
Definition
Nirvana
Punk Rock
Pretty
Webster
Freedom From
Terms
Rock
Doing
Close
Want
Means
Playing
External
External World
The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
Andrew Jackson
Bible
Rests
Rock
Which
Republic
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