Boy George Quotes

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• The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

  Boy George

  Personality, Ugly, Best Things

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• There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

  Boy George

  Falling In Love, Sex, Gay

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• I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

  Boy George

  I Am What I Am, Can Do, I Can

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• The most political thing you can do is be yourself

  Boy George

  Being Yourself, Political, Can Do

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• I wear makeup and dress this way because I think it makes me look better. I am not doing it to get people to stare at me. If I wanted to do that I could just put a pot on my head, wear a wedding dress, and run screaming down the street.

  Boy George

  Running, Makeup, Thinking

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• Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.

  Boy George

  Mother, Nice, Book

  "This much I know" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2002.

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• When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.

  Boy George

  Thinking, Competition, Realizing

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

  Boy George

  Ideas, People, Complaining

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• Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

  Boy George

  Thinking, Life Is, Intention

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

  Boy George

  Gay, Who I Am, People

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

  Boy George

  Sex, Tea, Cups Of Tea

  "Are you sure? The 12 things that celebrities have claimed are 'better than sex'" by Rod McPhee, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2013.

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• Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

  Boy George

  Thinking, People, Attention

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."

  Boy George

  Sex, Children, Holiday

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

  Boy George

  Years, Two, Lasts

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• The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

  Boy George

  Believe, Goal, Choices

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• I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

  Boy George

  London, Revolutionary, Punk

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

  Boy George

  Growing Up, Selfish, Mean

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

  Boy George

  Compare, Bus

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• After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

  Boy George

  Drug, Half, World

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• My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

  Boy George

  Mother, Running, Father

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• I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

  Boy George

  Gay, Transvestites

  London newspaper, 1984.

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• You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

  Boy George

  Writing, Media, Levels

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

  Boy George

  Song, Emotional, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

  Boy George

  Gay, Men, Culture

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• I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

  Boy George

  Men, Can Do, I Can

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