Sting Quotes

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Sting

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 2, 1951

Love is stronger than justice.

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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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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

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There's no religion but sex and music.

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Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

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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.

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I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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

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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

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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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I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

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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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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.

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I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

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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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