Stephen Roche famous quotes

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  • I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

  • Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

  • My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  • I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

  • As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

  • My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

  • One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

  • You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

  • If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  • My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’

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